Dynamic Africa
Formerly, "This is Africa/fyeahAfrica".
(Profile Photo by Mama Casset)
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I do not endorse any of the products or opinions shared on this site, nor do I claim any of the work posted here to be my own - except where stated. All posts originally made by me are credited. If no credit is given then the work is either my own/written by me or reblogged from another source.
A LITTLE ABOUT ME:
Student, 24
Based in Cape Town, South Africa
From Lagos, Nigeria
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(since Oct. 21th 2012)
From Citizens of Porto-Novo by Beninese photog Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou, on display at London’s Jack Bell Gallery till May 25.
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Women at a market in Benin by Sergio Pessolano on Flickr.
Julien Sinzogan was born in 1957 in Porto-Novo, Republic of Benin. He studied architecture in Paris at the École Spéciale des Travaux Public, and lives and works in France.
Sinzogan’s work expresses the way of life informed and inspired by the Yoruba divinatory and religious system known as Ifa. The Yoruba people of Nigeria and Benin in West Africa see life as taking a cyclical trajectory through which individuals experience the tangible world (aye), depart to the spirit world (orun) and are reborn. Sinzogan’s works explore the journeys between these different but closely related worlds. The voyages between such realms lie at the heart of religious practice across much of the Atlantic world, a world forever shaped by another voyage: the middle passage of the Atlantic slave trade.
Femmes catholiques de Ouidah, Benin. (1900)
I wonder if their conversion was by choice? Here’s an article about the rise of Catholicism in Africa over the past century.
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Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou - Iya Me DJi Ki Bi Ni
When that bass kicks in, ahhhh! These guys were some serious funk masters.
A woman from Dahomey (Benin) carrying her child on her back.
How many of us spent our early years in this fashion? My mother’s back was truly my biggest comfort as a child, next to my dad’s shoulder’s. It was a sad day the day I became to big for this privilege.
Studio portraits by Edouard Méhomé taken in Porto-Novo, Benin.
From “Life and afterlife in Benin” edited by Alex Van Gelder, Phaidon, 2005.
Photography by Bouraïma Akodji (Benin), from “Life and afterlife in Benin” edited by Alex Van Gelder, Phaidon, 2005.
#Beninese #people #Cotonou #Benin (Taken with Instagram at EtriLabs: TechHub By ETRI BENIN)
AFRICAN LOVE SONGS VALENTINE’S DAY PLAYLIST #7:Angelique Kidjo - Malaika
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Cotonou Benin on Flickr.
Cotonou Benin
Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou
Untitled (Demoiselles series), 2012
STYLE ICON: Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou
The sometimes coordinated and almost always immaculately dressed men of iconic Benin Afrobeat supergroup Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou provide endless inspiration for anyone wanting to channel some of that West African 70s traditional-influenced funk styles.
