"Africa I gatcha!" - Informative, Factual, Interactive and Current 4Africas4gottenbottomillions

Congolese designer, upstages the world of fashion hosts first virtual fashion show with 3D models

May 27, 2020 Michael Onyango Season 2 Episode 71
"Africa I gatcha!" - Informative, Factual, Interactive and Current 4Africas4gottenbottomillions
Congolese designer, upstages the world of fashion hosts first virtual fashion show with 3D models
Show Notes

The oldest person to start primary school—he enrolled in the first grade on January 12, 2004, aged 84. Although he had no papers to prove his age, Maruge believed he was born in 1920. His name is Kimani Maruge. Kimani Ng'ang'a Maruge, passed on August  14 2009. Hollywood Movie on him https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2vSWTU8qgU

Nothing, it seemed, was going to get in the way of this woman and stop her from taking her secondary school exams. She sat her school exams in a hospital bed 30 minutes after giving birth has passed with a mark of 75 per cent. https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/africa/Top-marks-for-Ethiopian-who-wrote-exams-after-labour/4552902-5286496-1upj03z/index.html

 Then we will also meet the 29-year-old driven to study law after he saw his father lose his property in a land dispute in 1996, when he was only 6years old. Twenty-three years later, the High Court delivered a final judgement which ruled in his family's favour. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6882937/Jordan-Kinyera-lawyer-wins-family-land-Uganda.html

And finally we will hear about how one individual stopped the destruction of more than 500,000 acres of rainforest in together with local community leaders, they documented the destruction of forests and farmlands in this country that has huge plantations of palm oil. https://www.goldmanprize.org/recipient/alfred-brownell/ 

If you’ve ever dreamt about attending a fashion show be it locally or internationally, worry no more. From the way things are going, you might just be able to enjoy a fashion show virtually. Congolese fashion designer Anifa Mvuemba on Friday held the first virtual fashion show, complete with 3D models, on Instagram Live, as she unveiled the newest collection for her label Hanifa, paving the way for what might be the new face of fashion. https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/evewoman/article/2001372793/congolese-designer-anifa-mvuemba-hosts-first-virtual-fashion-show-with-3d-models