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The African Women who dress like Victorians

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Photo by Jim Naughten We’ve already met the Sapeurs, a subculture of extraordinarily dressed male dandies from the Congo who wear expensive tailored suits, elegantly smoke on their pipes and stroll their war-torn slums in immaculate footwear… Now it’s time to meet the women with a flair for western fashion of another era… In the south [...]

Awesome Beetle Camera films African Lions Closer than Ever (SQUEE!!)

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These guys are kind of like kids that never outgrew their remote control car phase– and all the more power to them! Their BeetleCam invention is unstoppable, look at that thing go! It’s a remote control buggy with a DSLR camera mounted on top that can take close-up, wide-angle photographs of dangerous African animals. But [...]

WHO IS THE DANDY MAN? The Congo Subculture Uncovered

Modern Man is Afraid of Dandyism. Except for a few… When you think of silk handkerchiefs, pink corduroys, tweed and double-breasted tailoring, would you associate such a style of dress with some of the poorest slums of Africa? What you’re looking at is the phenomenon of Sapeurs, a subculture of extraordinarily dressed dandies from the Congo. In [...]


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