,,,Restless Voice Of Me,,,

and i am in this part of the world, still figure out the human nature.
 I wish i can be simple, as somebody else, but i have this voice inside,  very restless. 

when i am resting awakes me, and says, listen this is your new job. i guess i will have  in all life

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By Dumbanenenguebyceleste

May Stockholm Sweden 2013

KingTha Aka Thandiswa Mazwai

Thandiswa Mazwai style

Today blog is Music made in South africa High Quality Divine, i love her Totally, one of the reason that makes me love her, is her artistic way of be, from Voice, Music Genre, her service as artist, activism, the afro aesthetics, the awareness she brings through her style.

Thandiswa Mazwai style

i don't know if she's on her way to release new album but,  for me she is always perfect anyway, you can listen all her albums are made in perfect shape, from the group that she was part Bongo maffin, to her solo Career, she´s proving how she´s is so Divine, for me she´s is the Diva.

Thandiswa Mazwai style

from "Zabalaza" solo Album, "Ibokwe" also solo album, as far i know, i recomend.
i will put some info by one of the media's web platform  "channel 24" says about ibokwe Album.
i recomend i am drinking  Ibokwe album more than 4 years ago.

mini intro by dumbanenguebyceleste

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KingTha aka Thandiswa Mazwai Ibokwe Album Cover

The People Shall Govern

Article wroted by : Jean Barker

Listening to Thandiswa's Ibokwe is hearing your heritage being reborn in pop, witnessing tradition 

interrogated and reinvented, and rediscovering a critical pride in Africa and South Africa, that bridges

the gap between disappointment and blind faith. It's also an intoxicating, heart-melting, bewitching musical experience that's as uncontrived as it's complex.

Thandiswa Mazwai style

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The muscular femininity of this passionate Freedom Charter chick, whose voice is as soft as it is penetrating, links a story about the dizzying power of a spiritual calling ("Thongo Lam") to her struggle to deal with trouble without the last resort, ("Ibokwe"), to a prayer for a return to the first principles of our revolution ("Ngimkhonzile"). 

Thandiswa Mazwai style

The album is deeply personal, but Thandiswa celebrates and interrogates not just her own Xhosa tradition, but also her pan-African roots, going beyond the obvious with recurring Maskandi themes on "Izolo", and reaches further north with the tropical rhythms of "Vana Vehu" to bring all South Africa together over our outrage at what so often divides us - crime and cruelty. 

Thandiswa Mazwai style

Collaborations with Bra Hugh, her daughter Malaika, Ntomb' Ethongo, and sister Ntiski Mazwai bring her heros and family into the songs. Rather than disturbing the flow of her own style, their contributions make her shine more brightly. 

Thandiswa Mazwai style

Thandiswa Mazwai style

Thandiswa's often asked if she's come to us to fill the big shoes of Mama Afrika, Miriam Makeba. A strange question, considering Thandiswa's chosen to take a route much more off the beaten track than Makeba trod. Rather than bringing the jazzy international gloss Makeba gave us, Mazwai harnesses a more bewitching power that makes the tiny Busi Mhlongo look ten feet tall onstage. Rock stars and pop stars are the priests of a more and more secular world and though this album isn't evangelical, it provides the spiritual comfort, the counselling and healing, that all great music should in times of trouble, with tracks like"Abenguni" affirming unity and African pride.

Thandiswa Mazwai style

But the greatest music should also provide an easier kind of joy. This is the power of pop. And although the whole album is a brilliant blend of pleasure and meaning, Thandiswa also provides a party. So there's the sexy "Chom' endaka", and the kwaito-house jol track "Vakahini" (the only co-written, with Mandla) to finish you off laughing and sweating.

Thandiswa, Madiba, Michael

Ibokwe is definitely one of the albums of 2009, and a work that'll last a long time. I could imagine sitting the daughter I don't have down one day, and saying "listen to this". It's that good and that important. It's Thandiswa's first Urbanzulu, and hopefully not her last. 

Thandiswa Style

Thandiswa Mazwai style

Thandiswa Mazwai style

Thandiswa Mazwai style

Thandiswa Mazwai style

edit and redit by dumbanenguebyceleste Stockholm Sweden 2013

info : Channe24

PREMIERE: South African brand BABATUNDE at Mahoyo

DumbaNengueByCeleste is very happy to see Babatunde south african brand designed by stylist Gareth based in johannesburg, taking steps in scandinavia scene.
we are so glad to be part of this Journey doing (Network, P.R), we started one year ago and now we can see the result. do you want babatunde pieces in scandinavia sweden stockholm Mahoyowebeshop, www.mahoyo.com

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info via: mahoyo- Now it’s here; the Johannesburg based brand Babatunde is up on Mahoyo webshop. You can find bow ties from Babatunde’s first collection and caps from the latest collection ‘Capulana Fever’. Make sure you get your hands on one of these fresh items, it’s very limited.

The Capulana Fever Cap Collection

“The Capulana range is inspired by Mozambique and it’s vibrant fabric. Known as “Capulana” to the local people, the colorful prints are typically sold as 2m x 1m pieces or “sarongs”. Mozambican uses the fabrics as wrap around skirts or for carrying babies on their back. Head-wraps are also a common use for the Mozambican woman. Men in Mozambique have shirts and trousers made with the capulana.

This collection is a tribute to Mozambique and it’s beatutiful people. All fabrics for this range was sourced from Mozambique.”

PhotoMahoyo DuDe Cap By Babantude

photo Mahoyo Dude Cap By Babatunde

photo Mahoyo BowTie by Babatunde

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photo Mahoyo/ redit by dumbanenguebyceleste

mini intro text by Dumbanenguebyceleste  Full by Mahoyo

Stockholm Sweden May 013

Feedback by Amanda Ericsson, After "The Life of dress ", Workshop and Exhibition in Maputo Mozambique runned in April 2013

Workshop " The Life of Dress " aka " A vida de Um Vestido " Exhibition Runned in Maputo Artists House *Nucleo De Arte* in April 2013 Organized by Mima-te Mozambicans team Designers in Colaboration with Amanda Ericsson Swedish Designer.

Sponsored by "Nucleo De arte" Mima-Te Swedish Embassy, University Of Borås and Dreamandawake.

Check feedback in Amanda Experience

Amanda Ericsson Swedish Designer Photo By Stelio Wilson

Personal feedback
The time in Mozambique has been very interesting as people and their creations were intense and inspiring.

Photo By Stelio Wilson

 The workshop week was full on and what struck me was the great spread of people joining the workshop. They immediately created pieces and went straight to the machines.

Photo By Stelio Wilson

 I fell in love with the fact that one of the guys (Falcao Miquidade Mozambican Artist ) taking a dress and turning it upside down into Aladdin trousers.

In this Photo Mozambican Artist Falcao Talaquichade photo by Photo by Roberto Rubalcava

Photo by Roberto Rubalcava

Photo by Roberto Rubalcava

Photo By Stelio Wilson

 First time I ve seen anyone do that in the workshops and love the idea as it also extend the way men can use dresses. 

Photo By Stelio Wilson

Beautiful!

What the exhibition contributed with was just to create the space for people to practice their skills and put ideas into reality. We supplied the machine and the materials and then everyone else did the actual job.

Future workshops in Mozambique I do not know yet as i just got back. Now i ll focus on being in europe for some time and investigate how The life of a dress unfolds here.

Photo By Stelio Wilson

More info will later be on www.thelifeofadress.com 

but nothing there yet so for now 

www.facebook.com/thelifeofadress

Photo By Stelio Wilson
left right, Karol Silva, Stelio Wilson, Amanda Ericsson

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Stockholm Sweden May 2013

" Vida De Um Vestido " * The Life of Dress * Feed back after the Workshop and Exhibition By Emilia Duarte Participant Fashion Blogger Based in Maputo Mozambique

"Vida de um vestido"  The Life of Dress Workshop and Exhibition, Feedback by one of the participant fashion Blogger Emilia Duarte Based in maputo Mozambique.

Emilia Duarte 

 I learned that you can give a new life to an old piece of cloth and make something extraordinary out of it. The act of recycling is a value that is pretty much forgotten nowadays.

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Emilia Wearing Dress Redesigned By her 

 We are consumed by the greed of always buying something new and we end up neglecting, sometimes throwing away old clothes that have an emotional and historical value.

 I believe that i've contributed by observing, sympathizing, participating, producing and transmitting what i did at the workshop... and yes,certainly i would love to participate again.

Emilia During The Workshop 

Emilia In Action During The Workshop

Final Work Done By Emilia Redesigned

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Artigo em Portugues

Emilia During The Workshop

Aprendi que pode -se dar uma nova vida a uma peca de Roupa e fazer algo estraordinario /

Mima-te /The Designer/ Proudly Moz 

 O acto de reciclar e um valor que hoje em dia e bastante esquecido,,,estamos muito consumidos pela gana de comprar sempre o novo e acabamos por abandonar,por vezes deitar pecas antigas que tem um inestimavel valor, historia e uma certa Magia. 

Creio que contribui no sentido de ser mais uma pessoa que viu, aderiu,Partecipou neste caso Produziu e transmitiu o que fez no workshop...e certamente irei de novo ao workshop:)

Emilia During the Workshop

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Emilia Duarte

Emilia blogg

 www.mimyart.tumblr.com

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Edit by Dumbanenguebyceleste Photo Source  Emilia Duarte

Stockholm Sweden 2013 April

A" Vida De Um Vestido" * "The Life of the Dress" Feed back By Mima-te After the Workshop april 013

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"The life of dress "was workshop and Exhibition runned in Maputo Mozambique April 2013, by Mozambican designers from the Mima-te Eko Vintage brand and Swedish Designer based in London Amanda Ericsson, the workshop already finished we find out throught our questions feed back by Mima-te team Mozambican designer currently based in Maputo Mozambique.

check it 
questions by us photo by our correspondent  in Maputo Mozambique Stelio wilson.

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Photo by Stélio Wilson, Lyfe Style

Photo by Stélio Wilson, Lyfe Style
in this Photo Portrait by Stelio you Have Mima-te designers as models

• I would like your personal feedback after the workshop and exhibition of "Vida De Um Vestido"?

Amanda Ericson - "The life of the dress" - ,in collaboration with the Brazilian born artist Kerol da Silva and a Mexican Photographer Roberto Rubalcava and Mima-te organized the workshop . It was a very interesting project, since we had a lot of people attending. A bundle of second hand clothes was available for anyone interested in recycling/upcycling to make a new piece of cloth. Very beautiful and creative pieces were produced by the participants, an installation of photography was at the gallery to be seen. 

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"Avida De Um Vestido "  "The Life of Dress Flyer"

Photo by Stélio Wilson, Lyfe Style

• What do you learned back, what do you think you was able to contribute during the workshops activities?

It was a collaboration, meaning every participant contributed to the success of it and learned from one another . Mima-te also had a temporary shop at the Gallery where visitors could purchase dresses from our past collection ( Mafalala collection) and see our work. 

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Photo by Stélio Wilson, Lyfe Style

• Are you going to do this workshop in mozambique again? 

It is an interesting and innovative project. But, there is nothing concrete at the moment. We might do, we might not.
Nevertheless when we go to the markets( Xipamanine and Fajardo) ``collecting materials`` we offer that people do come with us and we show and explain where we select the clothes .So they can experience at firsthand, this feeling of hunting and the urge to upcycle old clothes. But an exhibition like this workshop would require fundings, which we as mima-te do not have at the moment.

In the photo from left to right, Karol Silva middle Stelio Wilson dumbanenguebyceleste Photographer  correspondent in Maputo Mocambique and right we have the designer Amanda Ericsson.

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Questions by DumbanenguebyCeleste

Photo by Stélio Wilson, Lyfe Style
Stockholm Sweden April 013

Flyer From The workshop and exhibition The Life of Dress