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Back in 2005, friends Wandile Zondo and Galebowe Mahlatsi came together with the intention of making authentically Soweto-inspired street wear. Thesis Lifestyle was born, with its first retail space opening up in Mofolo, Soweto, in 2007. Fast-forward to 2016 and Thesis Lifestyle markets a hugely popular apparel brand made by their in-house design team. They continue to cultivate a huge following through their lifestyle events and recently extended to a second retail space in Kagiso, a township west of Joburg. At the core of their business is the clothing line comprising pants, jackets, bucket hats and graphic T-shirts, which are especially popular. One of their bestsellers is a T-shirt with the words “Phiri, Mapetla, Zola & Mndeni” emboldened on the front, a reference to a popular kwaito song  by Tokollo Magesh, which gives a nod to four neighbourhoods in Soweto. “People identify with the T-shirt because it’s uniquely Sowetan and South African and it’s also better than the ‘I love’ T-shirts you get worldwide,” says Mahlatsi. Their expansion into events started back with the Thesis Social Jam Session, held every first Sunday outside the Soweto store from 2008-2012. The idea was inspired by a podcast by British DJ Gilles Peterson called Live At The K-Swiss Store, which made the pair want to bring together all the up-and-coming DJs, artists and comedians in their own vicinity. The events enabled Thesis to collaborate with various brands and helped  cultivate some of the biggest artists in SA now, such as comedians Mpho Popps, Tall Ass Mo and Donovan Goliath, and recording artists Okmalukoolkat, The Muffins and Samthing Soweto. The Kagiso store currently holds an event called Goodvibe Hangout every last Sunday of the month. They also introduced Thesis Run Cru, which fosters a running tradition in their neighbourhood. While encouraging their community to live a healthier lifestyle, they are  changing the way people interact with the brand. An opportunity to revamp an old dump site and save on overheads inspired Zondo and Mahlatsi to go green for their Kagiso store, which is housed in a shipping container. source:wantedonline (at South Africa) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEFWm2cJqUw/?igshid=jtwihxthpm0r

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Mala Mogodu and Dombolo 🍛 Ingredients: For the Mala Mogodu (tripe) 1kg tripe pieces (intestines, liver, blanket and honeycomb tripe) 1 Knorrox stock cube, chilli beef flavour Salt and pepper, to taste For the Dombolo (steamed bread) Butter or margarine, for greasing 4 ½ cups cake flour 2 tsp salt 2 tsp instant dry yeast 4 tsp sugar 2 cups warm water To garnish: Fresh parsley, chopped Serves: 4-6 Recipe For the Mala Mogodu (tripe) 1. Rinse the tripe under cold, running water (make sure it is thoroughly cleaned). 2. Add the tripe to a large pot and add enough water to cover the meat. Bring to the boil. 3. Once boiling, add the stock cube to the pot. 4. Reduce to a simmer and cook for 3 hours adding water if necessary. Season with salt and pepper and reduce to low heat until a thick sauce forms. For the Dombolo (steamed bread) 1. Grease a large enamel bowl with butter or margarine. 2. Sift dry ingredients into another large bowl and mix in the warm water. 3. Knead until the dough combines and does not stick to hands. Transfer dough to the greased bowl. Cover with cling wrap, put in a warm place and allow dough to rise. 4. Using a large pot, 15cm water or enough to reach halfway up the bowl containing dough (when water boils, it shouldn’t wet the dough or get inside the bowl). Place greased bowl inside the pot. Cover with lid and, on medium heat, steam bread for at least an hour or until cooked. To test if bread is cooked. Insert a knife in the centre. When the bread is ready, it should come out clean. 5. Serve the bread as a side to the tripe stew. Top with some fresh parsley and ENJOY! https://www.instagram.com/p/CD9R83VpwTo/?igshid=m9h3hg42l3x7

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In 2014, Seshoene founded The Lazy Makoti out of an opportunity she spotted when she taught a friend how to make traditional meals.  In her words “There are shockingly so many people who don’t know how to make South African foods. It is also hard to find a traditional food recipe book; so I knew that I had to concentrate on traditional food although I teach other cuisines too,” (Dolan, 2016).  Currently, The Lazy Makoti is primarily focused on teaching women to shine in the kitchen. The company also sells branded kitchen materials like aprons, chopping boards, kitchen journals etc,    credit:devictors, quivertree https://www.instagram.com/p/CC-YiIOJmf2/?igshid=1ay1lpwcxp5fh

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Bioartificial livers are an attractive option as a bridge to transplant or to promote liver regeneration in cases of acute liver failure.

Here, Li et al. tested an extracorporeal bioartificial liver system composed of human liver progenitor-like cells cultured on macroporous scaffolds in a bioreactor that provides alternating air-liquid exposure.

Three hours of treatment improved survival, reducing inflammation and promoting native liver regeneration in pigs with drug-induced acute liver failure. Results suggest extracorporeal cell-based bioartificial livers may be a promising treatment for acute liver failure.

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Whoever presents his own head to break the coconut will not be able to partake in the eating of it ~ Nigerian Proverb.

Good afternoon #Africa. #proverbs #nigeria #coconut — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2AZ8OCL

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Checkout Asimbonge from South Africa. Isn’t she just adorable? ❤️ : : : 📸 @zolekamkhabela #southafrica #african #africanchild #smile #mzansi — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/39bs0tM

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SEAFOOD JOLLOF

Ingredients:

• 1 cup Long Grain Rice

• 4 cups Water

• 1 cup Green Beans, top & tailed

• 1 cup Corn Kernels

• 1 Red Pepper, slice

• 4 tbsp Olive Oil

• ½ Onion sliced

• 2 Garlic Cloves, minced

• 2 tbsp Store Bought Seafood Rub

• 1 tbsp Tomato Paste

• 2 tins Chopped Tomatoes

• ½ cup Vegetable Stock

• 2 whole Habenero

• 1 Red Chili

• 2 tbsp Salt Prawns

• 6 Medium Prawns, de-shelled

• 4 tbsp Olive Oil

• 2 tbsp Salted Butter

• 1 tbsp Salt

• Juice of ½ lemon

Instructions: Cook the rice, water and salt in a medium pot over simmering temperature till rice is aldente. Cool and set aside Over high heat sautée the onions in oil with garlic and seafood rub till soft.

Reduce to medium heat and add the tomato paste followed by the chopped tomatoes. Stirring continuously. Add the vegetable stock, habanero followed by the red chili and simmer for 15 minutes. Whilst simmering, in a separate pan over high heat.

Flash fry the de-shelled prawns in oil and finish off with knobs of butter and a squeeze of lemon juice.

Lastly add the prawns, the remaining vegetables along with the rice to the pot and cook further for 4 minutes till rice and vegetables are warm. Season to taste with salt & pepper.

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…some other days

By Francis Kokoroko

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Interview with Ivana Akotowaa Ofori — Flash Fiction Ghana

Ivana Akotowaa Ofori (@_Akotowaa ‏) is a Ghanaian storyteller. Self-styled as “The Spider Kid”, she is a weaver of words in many forms, including fiction, non-fiction and spoken-word poetry.

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Nozipho Mbanjwa is a conversation strategist moderating global conversations that are designed to have measurable outcomes. She is in demand for her unique and insightful ability to facilitate difficult conversations with courage, depth and breadth. As an internationally acclaimed conference moderator and Human Capital Advocate for The World Bank and Global Citizen, she has successfully moderated conversations for global and African institutions including, leading listed and unlisted multinational corporations, business schools, and civil society organisations that seek to leverage conversations for change. Nozipho is also an award-winning financial markets broadcaster lifting the African business story through the lens of leadership, performance, the political economy, development finance, gender mainstreaming, and youth development. Nozipho is an executive director at LRMG, supporting the LRMG transformation journey, a faculty member for Duke Corporate Education in Africa, a fellow of the Gordon Institute for Business Science’s Centre for African Management and Markets (CAMM), a Tutu fellow, and in 2019 was named one of 2019 100 Most Influential Young Africans. She is an alumni of the following academic institutions: • Said Business School, Oxford (Tutu Fellow) • University of London (Masters in International Studies) • Stellenbosch Business School (|Masters in Development Finance – cum laude), • University of Pretoria (Hons: International Relations), (at African Women's Impact) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCErtrSpTS6/?igshid=7b8ho2px06d3

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Barbecued meat and maize porridge is a combination dearly beloved across many cultures in Southern Africa, and particularly in South Africa, where the braaivleis is a treasured institution and practically a national sport. "Pap en vleis" (literally, "maize porridge and meat") is a colorful umbrella of a term that encompasses virtually any combination of starch and braaied or stewed meat, with an obligatory side-serving of spicy gravy, relish or chakalaka. Shisa nyama, meaning "burn the meat" in Zulu, has come to refer to a festive "bring-and-braai" gathering; Shisa nyama restaurants are often located next to butchers’ shops so patrons can select their own meats and have them cooked to order over fiercely hot wood fires. Chops, steak, chicken, kebabs and boerewors -- a spicy farmer’s sausage -- are accompanied by maize porridges in many different forms including phuthu and stywe pap, krummelpap (crumbly porridge), and suurpap (soured pap). Add a local beer, and there you have South Africa on a plate. credit:foodies of south Africa, cnn (at Fuzies Pap&Vleis) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBxOGP4JH9B/?igshid=1ftb08wz7n9oa

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Benin City, originally known as Edo, was once the capital of a pre-colonial African empire located in what is now southern Nigeria. The Benin empire was one of the oldest and most highly developed states in west Africa, dating back to the 11th century.

The Guinness Book of Records (1974 edition) described the walls of Benin City and its surrounding kingdom as the world’s largest earthworks carried out prior to the mechanical era. According to estimates by the New Scientist’s Fred Pearce, Benin City’s walls were at one point “four times longer than the Great Wall of China, and consumed a hundred times more material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops”. Situated on a plain, Benin City was enclosed by massive walls in the south and deep ditches in the north. Beyond the city walls, numerous further walls were erected that separated the surroundings of the capital into around 500 distinct villages. Pearce writes that these walls “extended for some 16,000 km in all, in a mosaic of more than 500 interconnected settlement boundaries. They covered 6,500 sq km and were all dug by the Edo people … They took an estimated 150 million hours of digging to construct, and are perhaps the largest single archaeological phenomenon on the planet”. . . Barely any trace of these walls exist today. #CheckoutAfrica #Benincity #Africanhistory #African #Africa #Benin — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/3bJUfAg

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As a tidbit precursor to an upcoming documentary, the Yenkassa team uses sights and sounds from their visit to the 2019 Ga Homowo festival to bring you the rich and invigorating culture of the Ga people of present-day Accra, Ghana West Africa. All Rights Reserved ©2020-Present . Yenkassa.

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