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Posts Tagged: Africa

  • December 4, 2013

    Krumping in Liberia

    BY Lucas Habte

    Krumping, a popular hip-hop dance style from Los Angeles, has made its way to Liberia thanks to the internet and creative teens hungry for innovative outlets for their talents.

    FROM:Youth Happenings

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  • October 24, 2013

    Kenyan Goths

    BY Lucas Habte

    Africa has the highest concentration of teens on the planet, and in Nairobi they are expressing themselves in never-before-seen ways.

    FROM:Threads Ahead

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  • October 8, 2013

    Veils and Cleats: Zanzibar’s New Generation Queens

    BY Megan Shutzer and Katie Tygielski

    On the island of Zanzibar, a semi-autonomous state off the coast of Tanzania, there is an old cultural belief that Islam and women’s soccer are incompatible.

    FROM:Youth Happenings

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  • April 12, 2012

    A Life On Hold: Story of a Teen Refugee.

    BY Abigail Wilson

    When war broke out in Libya last year, thousands of refugees from countries including Somalia, Sudan, and Eritrea, were forced to flee for their lives.

    FROM:Youth Happenings

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  • January 2, 2012

    Keita’s Couples

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Sharp style and sweet love fill these portraits of young couples of Bamako, Mali in the early-mid 1950s.

    FROM:Threads Ahead

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  • August 22, 2011

    Hairstylin’

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Twists, turns, rows and spikes—student hairstyles of the seventies, Congo.

    FROM:Threads Ahead

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  • August 17, 2011

    The Bills

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    In the late 1950s in one of the poorest cities in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), Léopoldville (modern-day Kinshasa) a subculture emerged.

    FROM:Threads Ahead

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  • June 3, 2011

    Uganda Uniform

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    These bright, young Masindi Senior Secondary School students wear crisp white short-sleeved collared shirts emblazoned with their fire red school emblem.

    FROM:Threads Ahead

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  • April 21, 2011

    Mali Youth

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Records, twisting, beach bumming, all-night posing, layered in textiles — photographs of Mali youth culture in the 1960s and 70s by Malick Sidibé.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • March 18, 2011

    London Teen Joins Libyan Rebels

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    “I just couldn’t sit there and watch the news, I was going mad.

    FROM:Youth Happenings

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