Posts Tagged ‘Kenya’

da west meets africa and brings the house down

Sunday, December 21st, 2008

If you’re into African-Western fusion, you may just want to check out Ladybrille.

Ladybrille “Brilliant Lady” is a vibeilicious blogazine that unites the Western and African sisterhood together. The founder, Uduak Oduok is one of those rocking women who just hustles! If the girl says shes going to do something, she just figures out how to do it. She’s a lawyer-by-day (I know, I know)…but she busts it out Renaissance Woman style with Ladybrille and other ventures.

Jack Yan over at Lucire first put us in touch an eon or so ago.  Uduak called out of the blue to check in and say “Wassup girl!!!” Took a good hour, but hey, a girl’s gotta catch up on lost time. She’ll be writing about some of the work my colleague, Allan and I are doing over in Mozambique. Tentative plan is to head to the motherland again in May-June to do a Kenya-Rwanda-Mozambique scouting trip, so I’ve mentally blocked that time out on my calendar. More on that soon. In the interim: Check out the whitest white girl on a distinctly African magazine. I’m quite seriously not this white in real-life, but Michelle Wilson-photographer extraordiaire and makeup/hair artist Kerrie Urban gave me skin like a porcelain doll.

Summer Rayne Oakes on the cover of Ladybrille

Charity: Water benefit NYC 2008

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

Charity Water, December 15, 2008 ball

I won’t unfortunately be able to swing by Charity: Water this time around, but all of you should go. I headed to Esther’s and Sean’s photo exhibit/story time the other week and Esther was preparing for her journey throughout Kenya to document the Charity: Water wells being built. Definitely go if you are in the city, it’s always a great event and gets so much clean water to so many people. They’ve currently raised $7 million and have funded 890 water projects in 13 countries. That translates to giving 460,000 people access to clean water. That’s monumental! 100% of all public donations directly fund water projects…You can check out the locations over at Google Earth. Enjoy!