African players in the NFL championship games
The NFL games are heating up with all the teams playing like they are hungry for a championship ring. It’s time to see which African players are in the running for a Superbowl ring.
NFC Championship Game
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Obudu Ranch International Mountain Race is richest mountain running race in the world
The Obudu Ranch International Mountain Race has a combined pot of $250,000 and attracts some of the world’s best mountain runners. The men and women’s individual winners’ prizes are $50,000 each.
The race was started by Governor Donald Duke to raise awareness about Obudu Cattle Ranch and Mountain Resort, a tourist resort in Nigeria.
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Blackbird Jeans – redefining elegant male swag
Blackbird Jeans is the design outfit of Zeddie Lukoe and Sidney Owino. Established in 2008, they have quickly come to define what is new and edgy in men’s design.
In 2011 they showed their vividly stylized menswear collection at the Africa Fashion Week New York. It was a hit, and placed them firmly in the limelight as a design house to notice!
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Salieu Jalloh – Sierra Leone’s male supermodel
Salieu Jalloh is a male model from Sierra Leone who is in great demand for both print work and the runway. His chiseled looks and photogenic style have helped to make him quite the star.
Salieu Jalloh works with Red Model Management in New York, and Ford Models Europe, in Paris. He has walked the runway for, among others, Calvin Klein, Moschino, Corneliani, Dsquared2, Kenzo, and Songzio.
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Jared Okeyo paving his way in Atlanta
Jared Okeyo, a model based in Atlanta, has been on reality shows Real Housewives of Atlanta and the TI and Tiny Show on VH1, and was part of the fashion show by the AKOO clothing line owned by rapper T.I. He also did a Macys and Sean John fashion show.
To learn more about him, or just stay in touch, follow him on Twitter or friend him on his Facebook page.
Zainab Sheriff, Sierra Leone’s leggy beauty
Zainab Sheriff is a Sierra Leone fashion model, currently based in Istanbul Turkey.
Zainab started her modeling career at age 14 in the local area of Freetown Sierra Leone. She relocated to Istanbul Turkey in 2006, following her boyfriend (now husband), where she soon caught the eye of several high-end fashion designers. In an interview with Because I Am Fabulous, she detailed how some agencies were initially reluctant to work with her since there were ‘…not many black people in Turkey’, so therefore the demand for black models would not be high. Her big break came when she worked at a golden fair and subsequently met Cengiz Abazoglu, one of Turkey’s biggest designers. Through her work with him, she was exposed to other designers (Cemil Ipekci, Arzu Kaprol, Christian Loboutin) who included her on their runway rosters.
Her career portfolio includes extensive runway shows, features in top magazines including Elle, Marie Claire, and Vogue. Some of you may remember her as a contestant in the 2012 Big Brother Africa TV Reality Show. She unfortunately didn’t make it to the final for controversial reasons.
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Anggy Haif highlights African culture in fashion and music
Anggy Haif is a Cameroonian designer and singer who promotes African culture in his music and designs.
His designs use natural materials including raffia, roots, palm leaves and recycled materials. These products are woven into unique, creative, elegant designs that incorporate traditiona African patterns. His style is in such demand that he provides outfits for national and international beauty pageants. He also uses his own music as the backdrop to his fashion shows.
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Cynthia Masasi celebrating several new events
Cynthia Masasi, the video model we showcased sometime ago, is coming out with a new hair line, getting married, and expecting a new baby. She definitely has lots of new things coming up in her life.
She was also in a commercial for Golden Icons Magazine, a magazine dedicated to highlighting celebrities in entertainment. To learn more about her, visit her website.
Nina Keita – the new generation of noir beauty
Nina Keita is a beautiful model with a versatile style.
The featured face of Black Up luxury cosmetics, she is also a favorite for several clothing store catalogs, and on the catwalk. Nina Keita is originally from Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast).
She is infamous for her Old Navy ad which features her and her boyfriend, Sam Saffman. The ad spurred a lot of debate about interracial relationships, and questions about why there were two versions of the same ad (one with kissing and one without).
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Yao Ming in Kenya to help raise poaching awareness
Yao Ming has just concluded a week long tour through Kenya where he was on a visit to help raise awareness about the effects of poaching. He also got to mingle with the local individuals.
The trip was to help show China’s middle-class population the effects of the ivory-pendant trade that they are so deeply enamored with. When viewing an elephant’s carcass he declined to say too much, stating that he saw ‘evil’ in the killing. Yao previously worked with WildAid to raise awareness about shark fin soup and its effect on the sharks.
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Bertini Heumegni – Model, actor, designer and personal trainer.
Bertini Heumegni is a surprisingly humble model, actor and designer who seems to have his head in the right place. Discovered in South Africa while working as a bouncer, he has gone on to become a highly sought-after model, personal trainer, designer and actor.
Born in Cameroon, he went to the University of Lagos and then moved to South Africa. He lived in South Africa for seven years before moving to New York where he realized he needed to do more than just model. He became a personal trainer. He was picked to be on America’s Next Top Model where he stood out because of his hazel-green eyes. Determined to bring his children to the U.S., he worked hard until he could afford to bring them over. His twins, Danielle Heumegni and Patrick Heumegni finally joined him ( something he touts as his proudest accomplishment), and are doing well in college.
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