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Vintage African Mother & Baby Child Copper Designer Brooch by Joe Calafato – South Africa

Simply beautiful copper brooch by world-renowned South African jewelry artist, Joe Calafato. Calafato is known for his designs that have an endearing quality of compositions of African life. The circular brooch is a masterfully designed depiction of an African mother wearing a traditional headdress, beads, and adornments, carrying her sleeping, infant child on her back. This brooch has an endearing and enduring sentiment for one with a discerning eye for African beauty and art.

This beautiful brooch is hallmarked, not with one of Calafato’s more well-known maker’s marks, but is instead hallmarked with his signature all-caps, arial font: COPPER. Calafato’s timeless, African iconography and aesthetic appreciation of African expressions of nurturance, protection, and culturally traditional, African female beauty is evident in this fantastic brooch!

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🐘 Nothing quite compares like the bond between a mother and her child. Related African elephant (Loxodonta africana) females and their young live in tight-knit families led by a matriarch. This older, female leader helps the group survive by sharing her hard-earned wisdom, like remembering the locations of  watering holes in times of drought. 

Elephant family groups grow very attached. Mothers are extremely protective of their calves, and younger females act as attentive “babysitters.” These giants show their affection through touch, especially with their trunks, as well as through gesture and sound. Individual elephants remember their feelings for one another even when separated for years. Learn more about these incredible animals in the Museum’s exhibition The Secret World of Elephants.

Photo: Timothy A. Gonsalves, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 

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Andree Blouin 🎈- “Child murderer! Child murderer!” she screamed as they dragged her from the mayor’s office. Racist doctors had killed her son, and nothing had been done. But she had a plan for revenge – and was eventually called “the most dangerous woman in Africa!” 

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Happy Feast Day

Our Lady of Kibeho

Feast day: November 28

Our Lady of Kibeho is the name given to Marian apparitions concerning several adolescents, in the 1980s in Kibeho, south-western Rwanda. The apparitions communicated various messages to the schoolchildren, including an apocalyptic vision of Rwanda descending into violence and hatred, possibly foretelling the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. Our Lady of Kibeho became the first and only Vatican-approved Marian site in Africa.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase. (website)

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It's beautiful to see a mixed child waiting for their next mixed sibling to be born

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african lion Amersfoort 3L0A2212 by safi kok

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My mom made them face towards each other because she says they are "her two gay interracial nutcrackers"

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Michelle Obama and her daughters, Sasha & Malia.

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“African spirituality is a lifestyle….Humanity living in awareness, consciousness, constantly being aware that they are not alone as human beings.”

— Joshua Maponga

Source: theealphahouse via YouTube

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Black mothers

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#MonochromeMonday :

Auguste André Lancon (France, 1836-1887) Jeune girafe têtant sa mère dans une forêt (Young #giraffe suckling its mother in a forest), n.d. pen & black ink, grey wash, graphite H 19.2 x L 14.7 cm Musée du Louvre RF 22887, Recto