Africlectic Magazine

New exciting global life-culture magazine promoting the Diaspora’s Renaissance in culture, music, arts, fashion, science & health through the African lens.

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The Outwin Boochever Portrait exhibition opened at the National Portrait Gallery on Friday and runs through February 23, 2014. This juried...

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Saved by education: A Somali woman’s story
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An Africlectist’s Dreams in Post Apartheid South Africa: Portia Moemedi Being a young adult in a post apartheid South Africa is a challenge. This rainbow nation’s colours are not all bright and beautiful .Yes we got over the race issue but

unfortunately our generation has other issues to face. Being a young adult in a post aparthaid SA means we have to face challenges such as poverty , quality of education , AIDS , gender equality , unemployment and corruption. The people who fought the fight for apartheid are old now, so we have to take over and fix our problems in our country. These are problems that will need

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From producer/director Yanick Letourneau comes the feature documentary, United States of Africa: Beyond Hip Hop. Released in Canada, the USA, and South Africa, the film follows rapper Didier Awadi as he tours 40 countries, outlining the tragic defeats of various African leaders who were thwarted in their progressive aims, often by Western powers. This documentary gives us a picture of the past and hope for the future, all through the lens of music and politics. More than any genre except folk, rap has fused those two things; this is a stirring example of that fusion and the power it can have.

Historical Origins

Hip hop in Africa traces its origin back to the 1980s. South Africa had its own musicians. The likes of Yvonne Chaka Chaka, the magnificent Miriam Makeba and Chico Chikaya. East Africa had taarab music. West African music was alive with the afro-Jazz scene thanks to one legendary guitarist and saxophonist (Fela Kuti, anyone?). The Congolese music scene was vibrant in African so much so that lingala music was synonymous with African music. Franco, T.P.O.K Jazz, Mbilia Bel, Tshala Muana among other Congolese musicians boasted of a fan base that crossed continental boundaries.

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It is with great pleasure that we inform you of our exciting new site www.africlectic.com. Africlectic is a life-culture magazine with a deep desire and commitment to uplift, educate, and inspire a positive wave of social change in the African Diaspora. Our magazine serves as a visa for anyone wishing to embark on a cultural voyage to see the African Diaspora through the lens and perspective of a new generation of dynamic people of African descent.

The “Africlectist” reader is a combination of two words, ‘African’ + ‘Eclectic’. Who is the Africlectist? You are a multidimensional person of the African Diaspora whose true essence is greatly influenced by the rich cultural diversity and heritage they share with Africa. You have embraced your roots and made your voice heard, sharing and creating engaging conversations surrounding our communities back home and in the Diaspora. Together, we represent with pride and dignity the culture that has made us into individuals of the twenty first century, fighting to get our people to unite in this ever changing world.http://africlectic.com/

‘Brilliance is colorblind’: Star dancer born in war-torn Sierra Leone grows up to inspire

‘Because I’ve been through so much, I know now that I can make it and I can help other kids … realize that they can make it too’

Michaela DePrince was little more than a toddler when she saw her first ballerina — an image in a magazine page blown against the gate of the orphanage where she ended up during Sierra Leone’s civil war. It showed an American ballet dancer posed on tip toe.

“All I remember is she looked really, really happy,” Michaela told The Associated Press this week. She wished “to become this exact person.”

From the misery of the orphanage “I saw hope in it. And I ripped the page out and I stuck it in my underwear because I didn’t have any place to put it.”

Now Michaela’s the one inspiring young Africans: She escaped war and suffers a skin pigmentation disorder that had her labeled “the devil’s child” at the orphanage. She’s an African dancer in the world of ballet that sees few leading black females. She was adopted and raised to become a ballerina in the U.S. — a country where she believed everyone walked around on tippy toes.

Read more here http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48158581/ns/world_news-africa/

Poll finds Media and charities blamed for image of a continent in permanent crisis

Changes in Africa and the impact of overseas aid are not being effectively communicated to the public, a recent conference on development messages in Dublin has heard.

Organised by Dóchas, the umbrella group for Irish aid agencies and IDEA (the Irish Development Education Association), speakers addressed the findings of a survey into Ireland’s attitude to overseas aid.

The IPSOS/MRBI poll found while 88 per cent of those surveyed are proud of the general aid programme, awareness of aid and its effect was low.

Many of those questioned (44%) thought Africa had not changed in 20 years (31%) or was worse off (14%). But this stands in sharp contrast to reports from the World Bank,McKinsey and The Economist showing dramatic improvements during this time in some parts of the region.

UN data on child mortality show that under-5 mortality dropped rapidly in sub-Saharan Africa over the last 20 years, and at an increasing rate: the rate of decline doubled from 1.2 per cent a year during 1990-2000 to 2.4 per cent a year during 2000-2010. The fall in child mortality in Africa was described recently by The Economist as “the best story in development”.

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