Who knew cabbage could be this delicious! The wedges turn beautifully tender and make for a perfect substitution for bread in this dish. Serves 4 EASY 1 hr 20 mins THE FLAVOUR COMBINATIONS CABBAGE 1 (800g) large red cabbage 30ml …
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Sandra Aguebor: Lady Mechanic
Sandra Aguebor is Nigeria’s first lady mechanic. Growing up in a polygamous family in Benin City, her mother actively discouraged her from following her dreams, sometimes beating her when she would be out tinkering with an engine instead of doing her chores in the kitchen. But Sandra is the sort of woman that responds well to adversary.
“The constraints, the obstacles, the challenges that could have driven me back, they became my opportunity. The future looks bright” she says.
She has built a network of female mechanics that is spreading from city to city, and training former sex workers, orphans, and victims of trafficking to be mechanics.
Sandra believes that women are better suited to high quality, technical work on motor vehicles.
“Our clients keep coming back – they prefer us because we are determined to be better than a lot of mechanics who take their job and their
salary for granted” she says.
Sandra’s Lady Mechanic Initiative has now spread to the north with its first project in Kano City where the response from Muslim women has been unprecedented.
Yemi Alade And Sauti Sol Pay Tribute To Africa In Their Latest Music Video
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Jain’s ‘Makeba’ Music Video Displays Incredibly Creative Thinking in South African Culture
Jain is a musician from France, but she’s lived all over the world during her teens, from Dubai to the Republic of Congo and even in South Africa, where the music video for ‘Makeba’ was shot. The song’s name is a reference to Miriam Makeba, a well-known South African singer and songwriter during the 50s and 60s. Her mother used to play it at home, and she noticed how different the African beat and rhythm is to that of the Middle East and Europe. In the music video, it’s smart editing and visual effects that bring simple ideas together to give the video the rhythm that perfectly taps into the African beat.
As she turns knobs on the sound deck, street poles rise up or fall down, buildings rise and lower. From balloons being popped and crates being packed on top of each other to simulate the beat and volume to painting the lines on a zebra – these are just some of the many creative concepts in this art-filled music video.
This had to take a lot of planning and pre-production, but the execution is superb. For me, the music video showed that large budgets aren’t needed. It’s about getting the ideas together and building on that to get the body of work together to make the video.
Read more about Jain and her history here and listen to Mariam Makeba, her inspiration for the song here.
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