Category Archives: Celebrities

Ankara Street Style of the Day: Adekunle Gold

Today’s Ankara Street of the Day is of Nigerian musician and graphic designer Adekunle Gold.

Music Video: Yemi Alade -Tumbum

Fresh from her MTV Africa Music Awards 2016 “Best Female” win, Yemi Alade releases a humorous music video for the Selebobo produced “Tumbum”, off her acclaimed sophomore album “Mama Africa: The Diary of an African Woman”.

Magazine: Issa Rae for Fast Company Magazine November 2016

Issa Rae’s gawky-yet-relatable humor won her a throng of fans on YouTube and a place on best-seller lists for her memoir, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl. In Fast Company Magazine’s latest issue, she talks about her new HBO show, Insecure, why she loves Seinfeld, and the movement to diversify media.

Ankara Photo of The Day: Vanessa Simmons’s Ife’s Closet’s Fall/Winter 2016 Greta Jumpsuit for Empress.One’s Intimate with Vanessa Discussion

Celebrity and Growing Up Hip Hop reality star Vanessa Simmons embodied female empowerment at the Empress One, private women’s club event in Manhattan, New York, sporting a color blocking ankara print outfit by UK designer Ife’s Closet.

Award Show: Yemi Alade at the MTV Africa Music Awards 2016

Yemi Alade was one of the co-host along side Bonang Matheba and Nomzamo Mbatha for the 2016 MTV Africa Music Awards. For Yemi Alade’s 1st outfit she wore an electric blue suit with an ankara print shawl.