Aug 30, 20134 min read
It’s been two weeks already!
So….. I have officially relocated to London for roughly the next two years. Today is my two-week anniversary! Don’t worry I won’t be...
Jul 3, 20131 min read
My Africa Is: The Lagos Chronicles – Lakin Ogunbanwo
It gives me great pleasure to bring to you the final installment of My Africa Is: The Lagos Chronicles. I have enjoyed this series...
Jun 24, 20131 min read
My Africa Is: The Lagos Chronicles – The Floating School
My Africa Is caught up with Kunle Adeyemi, the architect behind the Makoko floating school. The floating school was designed to address...
Jun 17, 20131 min read
Day of the African Child
Today, June 16th marks ‘The Day of the African Child.’ The day is commemorated every year by Member States of the African Union and its...
Jun 16, 20131 min read
My Africa Is: The Lagos Chronicles – WeCyclers
Last post, I wrote that you should ‘Be prepared to be enlightened, engaged and inspired’. The time has come! My Africa Is has just...
Jun 5, 20131 min read
My Africa Is: The Lagos Chronicles Trailer
My Africa Is, a documentary series launched in 2012 with the mission to change the lens and narrative focused on Africa. My Africa Is...
Apr 22, 20131 min read
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: We should all be feminists
Renowned Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks about how our culture sees feminists and why all women should be feminists....
Mar 22, 20131 min read
StereoTypes Paris: French African vs. African American
StereoTypes is a web series which tests assumptions about race, culture, style and musical tastes based on physical...
Mar 20, 20131 min read
Africultures Festival 2013
Last weekend the Afroklectic team hung out at the annual Africultures Festival in Auburn (Sydney). The weather was nice but a bit of a...
Mar 3, 20131 min read
In Between stories
In Between StoriesRoda Siad. Originally Siad’s Master’s thesis in Media Production at Ryerson University, the film offers a portrait of...
Feb 27, 20132 min read
Female Circumcision: The Great Divide
Last Tuesday night I was watching the television program Insight, which is premised on a forum: the audience, made up of divergent but...
Feb 26, 20131 min read
The Africa Vintage Project
Last month, I introduced you to ‘The Nigerian Nostalgia Project‘ and now I am introducing you to ‘The Africa Vintage Project‘ by Muse...
Jan 16, 20135 min read
Two African-Australian girls in Asia
Guess who back, back back. Back again ‘gain ‘gain. Afroklectic is back, back back, tell a friend friend friend! Yes that is correct....
Dec 1, 20121 min read
Our Skin by Jendella
A few weeks ago I wrote about ‘That dirty word bleaching’ and my experience with it. Today I came across this interesting project...
Nov 18, 20121 min read
Travel Etiquette: Luanda, Angola – Market Life (Ep. 1)
Street Etiquette takes us through their travels in Angola in the first from four episodes. Episode one documents their first day in...
Oct 25, 20121 min read
This is why Abena is Black!
I read Diaspora Diaries: This is Why I’m Black by Canadian-Ghanaian writer Abena Amoako-Green and I thought I was reading about myself....
Oct 15, 20121 min read
Afro-Australian Hipsters
Check Afroklectic’s contributor Sefakor Dokli‘s article on the disappearance of the gangster and the emergence of a hipster-esque boys in...
Oct 2, 20121 min read
Yenkassa
Yenkassa (pronounced yen-kah-sa) means ‘let us talk/let us speak‘ in the Ghanaian dialect of Akan. From this word, a unique project is...
Sep 26, 20122 min read
Wings: African Identities
This month, I was fortunate enough to be featured in Issue 12 of Afrik Air‘s in-flight publication Wings ‘African Identities‘ by Belinda...
Aug 20, 20122 min read
Côte d’Ivoire is not next to Ghana (Apparently)
Some time ago, I think mid last year, I was working my previous job as a Customer Care Assistant at an Optometrist and a customer came...