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Must Watch: Chico Leco Presents Urban Hunter by Nick Ondu

Chico Leco presents his Fall/Winter 2013 collection - Urban Hunter - a unisex selection inspired by Man’s innate ruggedness, his hunger for adventure, raw primitivism and the human need for desire.

Read more about the collection here.

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My new collection Fall/Winter 2013 #UrbanHunter #Chicoleco_OnlineFashionWeek

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THE ECONOMIST | KENYA ON THE CATWALK

GRACE NDUTA has never ventured far from Korogocho, the Nairobi slum where she lives. But her handiwork has. Bags she helped make were slung over the skinny shoulders of fashion models as they strutted the catwalks of Paris Fashion Week earlier this month.

Mrs Nduta belongs to a collective of Kenyan craftswomen that makes handbags and other accessories for designers such as Vivienne Westwood, a Briton. Their work could be one answer to Africa’s failure so far to manufacture much for export. Making consumer goods fast and in large quantities has proved difficult. But haute couture needs skilled hands more than speed, and these abound.

Continue reading about the economic impact of ethical manufacturing and traditional handicraft in Africa via The Economist.

Kenya stand up……. #teamkenyandashion

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Eritrea’s nine ethnic groups (from left to right):

• The Afar people, also known as the Danakil, are an ethnic group in the Horn of Africa. They primarily live in the Afar region of Ethiopia, northern Djibouti and the southeastern region of Eritrea. The Afar people are primarily Sunni Muslim.

• The Bilen people, also known as the Bogo or North Agaw, are an ethnic group in the Horn of Africa. They are primarily concentrated in central Eritrea, in and around the city of Keren, and south toward Asmara, the nation’s capital. The Bilen practice both Christianity and Islam.

• The Hedareb people include the Beni-Amer people who have retained the use of the Beja language, the To-Bedawi (Hedareb). They also include the subtribes: Hashish, Labat, and Halenqua. The Hedareb people are predominately Sunni Muslims who typically live in the central highlands of Eritrea. Most Hedareb speakers speak at least one other language to assimilate to the majority, typically Arabic or Tigre. They are also one of the nine linguistically defined sub-nationalities of Eritrea.

• The Kunama are a Nilotic people living in Eritrea and Ethiopia. 80% of Kunamas live in Eritrea yet make up only 2% of the population of Eritrea, where they are one of the smallest ethnic groups. Most of the estimated 100,000 Kunama live in the remote and isolated area between the Gash and Setit rivers near the border with Ethiopia. The Kunama speak a Nilo-Saharan language unrelated to the dominant languages in Eritrea and Ethiopia. Although some Kunama still practice traditional beliefs, most are Sunni Muslim or Orthodox Christians.

• The Nara are a Nilotic ethnic group living in Eritrea and make up less than 1% of the population. The Nara people are generally Muslim, with a minority of people following Christianity and a few still practicing their indigenous beliefs. The Nara name means “Sky Heaven” and Speak a language called Nara-Bana, which means “Nara-Talk”. The Nara are divided into four subtribes, the Higir, Mogareb, Koyta, Santora. They are typically agrarian and today have settled mostly along the border with Sudan.

• The Rashaida or Rashaayda are an Arab tribe populating Eritrea and north-east Sudan. In 1846, many Rashaida migrated from Hejaz in present day Saudi Arabia into Eritrea and north-east Sudan. The Rashaida are Arabs who kept their traditional dress, culture, customs, camel breeds and religion (Sunni Islam). The racing camel breeds of the Rashaida tribe are prized all over Sudan and the Arabian Peninsula and fetch very high prices. The Rashaida speak Hejazi Arabic.

• The Saho, sometimes called Soho, are an ethnic group inhabiting the Horn of Africa. They are principally concentrated in the Southern and Northern Red Sea regions of Eritrea, but some also live in adjacent parts of Ethiopia. They speak Saho as a mother tongue, which belongs to the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family.

• The Tigre are an ethnic group residing in Eritrea and Sudan. They are a nomadic and pastoralist people, related to the Tigray-Tigrinya people of Eritrea and Ethiopia and to the Beja people of Sudan. They are a predominantly Muslim nomadic people who inhabit the northern, western, and coastal lowlands of Eritrea (Gash-Barka, Anseba and Northern Red Sea regions of Eritrea), as well as areas in eastern Sudan. 99.5% of the Tigre people adhere to the Islamic religion Sunni Islam, but there are a considerable amount of Christians among them as well (often referred to as the Mensaï in Eritrea).

• Tigray-Tigrinya are an ethnic group who live in the southern, central and northern parts of Eritrea and the northern highlands of Ethiopia’s Tigray province. They also live in Ethiopia’s former provinces of Begemder (Gonder) and Wollo, which are today mostly part of Amhara Region, though a few regions (e.g. Wolqayt, Tselemti, Raya, Humera) were incorporated instead into modern Tigray Region. Their language is called Tigrinya. They make up approximately 96.6% of the inhabitants of the Tigray Region, and are 6.1% of the population of Ethiopia as a whole, numbering little more than 5.7 million. Tigrinya speakers are 55% of the population in neighboring Eritrea at about 3.4 million people.

(Source: maarnayeri)