These new vitiligo and albino dolls for Black girls beautify diversity.

The quest for diversity inspired two women to team up and create a collection of dolls with facial and body features of African and Caribbean children to help encourage black girls to embrace their natural beauty. Caroline Hlahla, a Zimbabwean based in the UK, and Khulile Vilakazi-Ofosu, a South African, started the Sibahle Collection brand in 2017, and have since not looked back. In March 2018, the duo launched a line of albino dolls called Zuri Swahili name for “beautiful” to address discrimination and violence against those living with albinism, and for girls with albinism to have a doll they can relate to.

Africa’s first blind photographer Taiwo Lawal and how she gets the best shots.

She sets the tripod, checks the angles to ensure good balance. She then feels the buttons on the camera and looks into the lens. Camera. Ready. Action!, That is the normal work routine for the Nigerian woman, Taiwo Lawal, believed to be Africa’s first blind photographer who is showing the world that passion is stronger than obstacles.

Australian town's genius way of stopping rubbish from polluting rivers and streams goes viral.

An Australian town's innovative rubbish filtering system is impressing people across the globe for its simple way of reducing river pollution. Two drainage nets were installed on a trial basis in Kwinana, 38km south of Perth, in an attempt to reduce waste seeping through the town's drainage system.

Florida man’s mugshot goes viral, draws a slew of ‘neck’ jokes.

 

A Florida man was in the wrong neck of the woods Tuesday, and now he’s become a viral sensation. Charles Dion McDowell was arrested on charges of fleeing and eluding police, possession of meth, cocaine and other drug charges but it’s not the crime people are talking about.

Tiwa Savage featured on British Vogue’s list of female artists changing modern music.

While congrats are in order for yet another milestone for Tiwa, the feature was only made possible by the Chief Editor Edward Enninful, who celebrated his one-year anniversary with the release of the December issue. In this edition, Enninful brings his #newvogue campaign aimed at increasing diversity in the magazine’s pages to an end for the year.

Canada's first dollar bill to ever feature a black woman will go into circulation in this month.

Described as Canada’s Rosa Parks, Viola Desmond was arrested and jailed for sitting in the whites-only section of a local cinema in 1946 nearly a decade before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Alabama igniting the country’s civil rights movement.72 years after the event, Canada will put into circulation a $10 banknote featuring Viola Desmond’s portrait in November. She will be the first Canadian woman to be featured on a regularly circulating banknote and also the first black person to be on any dollar bill.

Dangerous dances that rocked Africa in the past year they could kill you!

The scores of dance trends that have evolved from Africa and gone global over the years have been numerous. Talk about the Azonto, the Alanta, the Suo and the sensual Kizomba dance, these dance crazes are supposed to be entertaining.But the recently introduced ones have been far from that as they tend to be rather bizarre and dangerous; containing moves that could be harmful.

Cops called on black student in lecture hall for placing feet on chair!

Authorities from the University of Texas at San Antonio are investigating a viral video showing an African-American student being escorted out of a classroom by the police after a professor allegedly reported her for having her feet on a chair.“So this happened today in class, a girl had her feet up and the professor called the police after calling our class uncivil,” a Twitter user, who posted a video of the incident on Monday said, adding that the Biology professor Anita Moss had called the officers to escort the student out.

Nigerian Flora Nwapa was the first African woman to publish a novel and run a women’s publishing house.

In 1962, Heinemann Books, a publishing firm from the United Kingdom set up a branch in Africa to publish African writers and give them international exposure. The project, known as the African Writers Series, went on to have a massive impact on the development of African literature.

Outrage as 13-year-old Thai boxer dies in ring.

Thais have reacted with shock and anger after a 13-year-old boxer died during a charity bout, reviving calls for a ban on fights between children in the brutal Muay Thai martial art.