Krumping, a popular hip-hop dance style from Los Angeles, has made its way to Liberia thanks to the internet and creative teens hungry for innovative outlets for their talents.
Posts Tagged: Africa
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Kenyan Goths
Africa has the highest concentration of teens on the planet, and in Nairobi they are expressing themselves in never-before-seen ways.
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Veils and Cleats: Zanzibar’s New Generation Queens
On the island of Zanzibar, a semi-autonomous state off the coast of Tanzania, there is an old cultural belief that Islam and women’s soccer are incompatible.
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A Life On Hold: Story of a Teen Refugee.
When war broke out in Libya last year, thousands of refugees from countries including Somalia, Sudan, and Eritrea, were forced to flee for their lives.
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Keita’s Couples
Sharp style and sweet love fill these portraits of young couples of Bamako, Mali in the early-mid 1950s.
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Hairstylin’
Twists, turns, rows and spikes—student hairstyles of the seventies, Congo.
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The Bills
In the late 1950s in one of the poorest cities in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), Léopoldville (modern-day Kinshasa) a subculture emerged.
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Uganda Uniform
These bright, young Masindi Senior Secondary School students wear crisp white short-sleeved collared shirts emblazoned with their fire red school emblem.
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Mali Youth
Records, twisting, beach bumming, all-night posing, layered in textiles — photographs of Mali youth culture in the 1960s and 70s by Malick Sidibé.
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London Teen Joins Libyan Rebels
“I just couldn’t sit there and watch the news, I was going mad.