From the blog Of Another Fashion , an important post on the consumerist culture of fashion - and it’s exclusive nature. Nice work!
Last month, The Sartorialist (Scott Schuman) relaunched his Vintage Photo series. The first …

With the absence of formal statehood for Somaliland, the imagination of a state might be easily lost-and yet, hope reigns. It is true that recognition is important for the majority of Somalilanders in the Diaspora. What is forgotten is that without the will and determination to build communities or a sense of belonging, recognition and its benefits are merely peripheral to the cause. Instead, the heart of the matter is precisely that-cultivating a place and home for a people too often characterized as stateless, fragile, mired in chaos and incapable of coming together for the greater good.

As reality TV continues to prod the most perverse of human nature, one wonders - how much longer must we be subject to this?
This chart c/o of Vanity Fair draws out the latest trend in …

Photography and truth. This would be another way to place the Figures & Fictions exhibition on contemporary South African photography at the V&A museum. Figures & Fictions extends the role that photography has played as …

Teju Cole, Nigerian born - American based writer takes on the strangeness of “return migration” to a home unknown, and the act of inventing memories of exile in The New Yorker’s special issue on …

Last night, I attended Land in Focus’s special country series showcasing a full cultural spectrum of arts with a regional dimension. Land in Focus highlights the films and cultures of countries from Latin America, …

The Arab Spring continues to blossom, in sporadic and unexpected ways: Spring interrupted by the chill of westerly wind, and spring fruitful of blooms in the gardens of the East, catapulted by human movement and …

This is Worldtown speaks to the director/producer of a short documentary on the art of ‘Wall Chalking’ in Lahore, Pakistan. As a means of expression, the chosen sites and the messages conveyed through wall chalking …

Confession: every time anyone mentioned Omar Suleiman - the guy Hosni Mubarak appointed as Vice-President of Egypt - in the last month, I couldn’t help but think of this guy Omar Souleyman. Souleyman is the …

Having recently checked out the African mash-up lovefest that is Secousse on Friday at a party in London, I’m hooked to the sounds of Ize Teixiera - who performed live his own special mix of …