LEILA GHANDI AND HER PHOTOGRAPHIC LOVE FOR HUMANITY!

Long curly hair, curious and warm eyes, petite frame running around with grace & intelligence trough the planet to discover and share with the world through the use of images, videos and words what humanity is all about.

30 years old, Ben Battouta (her Moroccan name) could have been sitting at a fancy desk with her degrees from Sciences Po & the University of Portsmouth but she chose to answer to her calling. Even though she had plenty of more traditional opportunities available (she worked at the Chamber of Commerce of Lot-et-Garonne), at 26 years old she got up, packed her bag and met the world. It wasn’t an easy choice at first, her relatives were worried at the beginning but today in retrospect she has no regrets.

Among some of the places Leila has seen, she’s been to China, Tibet, Peru, India, Irak and just has been picked by Gilles Kepel to travel with him to the Middle East.

Her courage and great passion haven’t gone unnoticed by the world; she’s received plenty of awards one of them in particular was given to her by the Association of the Young Mediterranean Leaders.

Her work has been exposed at the French Parliament, in Spain, one of her documentary on Moroccan children has been broadcasted on local Moroccan TV.

Leila has published a book called “Chroniques de Chine”, and is currently working on a novel.

I am definitely encouraged in my own artistic quest by the determination that this fabulafricana is showing.

Here's her website: www.leilaghandi.com

I also enjoyed this little interview, HERE

Djaa my Moroccan sistas sont dedans aussi:)

Eyee Wayee:)

BLOG STAR OF THE DAY: THE TWENTY TEN CLUB BY OCTAVIA GOREDEMA!

The beautiful Octavia Goredema

Man, there are truly some fabulous web resources for fabulafricanas out there; one of them that seriously caught my attention is this amazing blog by Zimbabwean fabulafricana Octavia Goredema.

Octavia started her blog once she moved to London and was starting her own business while expecting her baby at the same time .For inspiration and encouragement, she created this place to learn and share from young black entrepreneurs.

Using her little black book and the connections she made through her work in PR, she started monthly meetings in London with other fabulafricanas.

I love her blog because it displays a great variety of focused and inspiringwomen working in the food ,health ,beauty ,fashion ,new media industries .

Here’s her website: http://twentytenclub.com/

Djaa my Zimbabwean sistas sont dedans:)

Eyeee Wayee:)

CHOCOLATE SOUFLE AT THE TERROU BI TERRACE RESTAURANT/DAKAR , SENEGAL!

One of my fav’ weekend hangout spot in Dakar is the Terrace Restaurant at the Terrou Bi Hotel.

Far from the trendiness of some beautiful spots in Dakar, the Terrace is a relaxing yet lush spot where you can sit on beautiful and comfortable rattan seats and face the water. The wait staff is accommodating and professional.

Moha, my little brother from another mother and I enjoy sitting there on Sundays sharing life stories around warm chocolate cakes and huge local fruit cocktails. If you ever are in town and may find yourself craving some chocolate cake among other things, the Terrou Bi Terrace Restaurant may just do it for you. Oh and one more thing they also make delicious thin crust pizzas, see you there: )

Here’s their website:

www.terroubi.com

Enjoy:)

SADE ADU PERFORMING AT THE KEEP A CHILD ALIVE BLACK BALL!

Veteran Singer Sade & Young'un A.Keys

Groovin'A moment of complicity at it's sweetest taboo:)

The Keep A Child Alive foundation’s CEO none other than the very talented Alicia Keys hosted her annual black ball gala in NY on September 30^tth 2010.Her famous and generous guests got in exchange for large donations, a beautiful show with artists such as Jay Z and our fabulafricana untouchable singing queen Sade Adu. Mrs Sweet Beatz even got on the mic to sing along with Sade on her single “Love is stronger than pride”

Check it out ,HERE

Here’s the Keep A Child Alive website:

www.keepachildalive.com

I'M FRENCH NO COMMENTS , SAYS ROKHAYA DIALLO!

This girl most certainly has guuuuuuuts!

She’s most remembered for her heated debate with the very but I insist on the veryyyyy annoying French cultural critique Zemmour. In his opinion, based on the statistics,most crimes are carried out by Blacks and Arabs therefore it makes sense that these two important minority groups are forced to show their ID’s to the police on queue whether or not they are French born citizens.

The message of Rokhaya Diallo is simple and should answer that question, French Caucasian people should accept minorities that were born and are living in France as regular French citizens with the same rights as the white ones. She considers herself to be as French as any Caucasian urban or rural woman. Being that she’s lived there all her life, attended the same schools as any white French kid she doesn’t consider herself any different.

Racism doesn’t limit itself to Black & White relationships in her opinion; it could be gender based or discrimination against Muslim women who chose to wear the burka in France for example.

This 32 years old woman founded her association called Les Indivisibles which goal is to educate and fight against racism as a whole through humor and education.

This TV and Radio personality created trough her association the annual award show “Y’A BONS” which points the finger at and makes fun of the most famous racists people in France . Some of the black celebrities who are present and support during the awards are Aissa Maiga, Lilian Thuram,Audrey Pulvar among others.

Rokhaya was handpicked to participate in a diversity program which took place in the USA. On her personal blog, Rokhaya shares her thoughts regarding diversity in America and her various ideas on racism and ways to fight against it.

Catch if you speak French an interesting interview with Rokhaya Diallo, HERE

Here's her blog address: ww.rokhaya.blog.canalplus.fr

Her association's site is :www.lesindivisibles.fr

A very interesting fabulafricana:)

Eyeee Wayee:)

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