Love yourself. Be yourself.
Inspiring interviews with artists, designers, musicians, activists and other creative and enterprising people from Africa and the diaspora.
I discovered Simphiwe Dana a couple of years ago when I went to see her in concert in London. Her music, her vibe, really moved me. I had the wonderful opportunity to chat with her, on a cold Liverpool street after her show, earlier this year and she was incredibly wise and down to earth. With her composure and quiet beauty, one might mistake her for being timid but in her music and in her thoughts, she is truly a warrior! A champion of African pride and universal respect.
"I am a very cultured person … As [African people] we were made to feel inferior and a lot of African people stopped practicing their culture because it was seen as witchcraft or uncivilized. My music is inspired by African people and the love they have for song."
A true Afri-love spirit, check out Simphiwe waxing about The One Love Philosophy.
"We start by appreciating ourselves, then each other as part of ourselves, then we all truly flower."
Photos from Simphiwe Dana's myspace page apart from left bottom (by Lulu Kitololo) and right middle (found on Gorgeous Black Women).