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Oumou has been an inspiration for thousands and her works are bold and ambitious. Please note a lot of the images you see in this slideshow were taken by the photographer Thomas Dorn. MySpace | African Fashion http://www.myspace.com/africanfashion DESIGNER OF THE YEAR 2007 | Oumou Sy from Senegal MySpace | African Fashion is celebrating the amazing fashion designs by Oumou Sy from Dakar, Senegal. Oumou Sy's work combines Western chic and contemporary African avant-garde and she is known as Senegal's Queen of Couture and it's easy to see why. Her contribution to African fashion has been and continues to be immense. She is the founder of the annual Dakar Carnival and the International Fashion Week. Her work is ambitious and bold and she truely deserves the title of Designer of the Year 2007.

Danish Artist buys Africans This morning I received an email from an artist from Uganda called, Eria Sane Nsubuga, who seemed fascinated by an artistic project, which took place last summer, 2007, in a small rural village in Uganda, by a Danish artist, Kristian von Hornsleth. Here is the press release and website details: How many Africans would change their name in return for 242 pig and 65 goats? The answer is 307. At least if they live in a small village in one of the worlds poorest countries. This summer, the Danish artist Kristian von Hornsleth visited a poor village in Uganda and gave the local population a fantastic offer they could not refuse: He wanted all of them to take his name! In return, the 307 villagers would receive a large number of pigs and goats. This has lead to a controversial artwork titled "We want to help you, but we want to own you." This is the experience of artist Kristian von Hornsleth based on his visits to the village of Buteyongera in the M

THE NEW AFROPOLITANS Painting: "The Contestant Wears Red" by Norman O'Flynn | South Africa I've just read this wonderful article and wanted to share... Bye-Bye Barbar by Taiye Tuakli-Wosornu It's moments to midnight on Thursday night at Medicine Bar in London. Zak, boy-genius DJ, is spinning a Fela Kuti remix. The little downstairs dancefloor swells with smiling, sweating men and women fusing hip-hop dance moves with a funky sort of djembe. The women show off enormous afros, tiny t-shirts, gaps in teeth; the men those incredible torsos unique to and common on African coastlines. The whole scene speaks of the Cultural Hybrid: kente cloth worn over low-waisted jeans; 'African Lady' over Ludacris bass lines; London meets Lagos meets Durban meets Dakar. Even the DJ is an ethnic fusion: Nigerian and Romanian; fair, fearless leader; bobbing his head as the crowd reacts to a sample of 'Sweet Mother'. Were you to ask any of these beautiful, brown-skinned

PHOTOGRAPHER PHILIP KWAME APAGYA GHANA, USA I want to start off the year with a wonderfully imaginative photographer from Ghana, Philip Kwame Apagya. His photographs are a little bit of magic put onto to film with stage-set designs as a background the sitter can be wherever they want to be....the possibilities to this idea are endless. All credit to Philip, these photographs are great. Thanks... Philip Kwame Apagya | African Photographer Fascinating images from the realms of commercial studio portraiture – In Africa, a photo studio is the place where dreams come true. For a few pence, ordinary mortals can strike a pose and achieve immortality, have things they haven't got and may never have, be people they are not and may never be, have access to the inaccessible. People start asking for personal portraits that go beyond the image usually present on identity papers, often the only 'popular portrait' available. This opens new roads and avenues to the art o