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When it opened its doors in 1955, the Grande Hotel in Beira, colonial Mozambique was touted as the largest and most luxurious hotel in Africa. The art deco style palace with uninterrupted views of the Indian Ocean boasted 116 rooms and an Olympic sized swimming pool for its VIP guests. But by the 1970s, having [...]
Far from the gleaming multiplex cinemas most of us are accustomed to, there are places that can’t afford the printers needed for making movie posters, let alone the legal rights to actually screen blockbuster Hollywood films. As a result, locals will try their hand at drawing the posters for their bootleg screenings… First let’s take [...]
When was the last time you felt like complaining to your landlord? It seems there’s always something disgruntling about where we live (I’m currently annoyed with the workmen in the building who keep blanketing my mobylette in dust), but then you read about a place like the Ponte Tower and suddenly, wherever you’re shacked up doesn’t [...]
This is Alfred J. Sirleaf, the founder and sole editor of a ‘blackboard newspaper’ in Monrovia, Liberia’s capital city. Everyday, Alfred updates his newspaper, The Daily Talk (I can’t even paste a link), neatly writing the latest headlines using sticks of chalk in his “newsroom”, a small wooden shack attached to the back of his [...]
You might think this sounds a little odd but sheep pageantry is in fact not all that different to the dog and cat shows we put on in the western world. In Senegal, sheep and rams are like pets. In 8 households out of 10 in Senegal, there are live-in sheep and rams because it’s [...]
Solange Knowles (a.k.a Beyoncé’s little sis) has just released her new music video and not only is ‘Losing You’ a dreamy tune and one of the coolest videos I’ve seen in a while, it also scores major points for the inclusion of Les Sapeurs– the subculture of African dandies Nessy blogged about last year! There [...]
Anyone else had enough of the same old fashion week news coverage? A web series from VICE is here to save the day. Hosted by quirky Brit presenter, Charlet Dubac, the series called Fashion Internationale follows various non-mainstream fashion weeks around the world. So let’s escape all that pretentious fashion week coverage and take a [...]
Her ‘brother’ was an elephant and she splashed around with crocodiles … No, this is not the kid from the Jungle Book movie. This is Tippi Degré, the girl who grew up in the African wild and managed to not get eaten. The animals you see in these photos with Tippi were not in any way [...]
Hotels just don’t give enough giraffe these days. Luckily, I’ve found one that’s keeping up the standards. Giraffe Manor, located 20km outside of Kenya’s diverse capital Nairobi, is a five-star hotel with a resident herd of Rothschild Giraffes that roam the 12 acre private property freely– meaning they’ll poke their heads through your luxury bedroom [...]
Welcome to Niaqornat, Northwest Greenland. Population: 59. Dogs outnumber people in this surreal
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Pick a bathing suit this summer that allows you to go back to being a kid again when the only thing
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People choose to live in some pretty baffling places, like those towns sitting at the base of
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Camping on Mars? Seaside fun with views of Saturn? French artist Djuno Tomsni imagines the perfect
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Alright, so you might have noticed I have a weakness for French real estate p0rn. [Sigh] I
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If you’re stuck in the city on one of the warmest days of the year, it doesn’t
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Far from the gleaming multiplex cinemas most of us are accustomed to, there are places that
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“It’s not a symbol of harassment. It’s a symbol of a woman having an absolutely
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When was the last time you felt like complaining to your landlord? It seems there’s always
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(c) André Gonçalves The Vatican, the leaning Tower of Pisa, the canals of Venice, Pompeii– you
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Late night shopping in Milan, a stroll down a Croatian beach or a romantic dinner in Venice? Those
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