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Afternoon Tea in London is an experience that seemed like a bucket list thing to when I first moved to the capital. It’s so English, so quaint, so wonderful! I’d pile those crusty scones high with generous slabs of jam and clotted cream. This was to compensate for the cucumber…
Until recently, I’ve always been a plain black socks girl. No stripes. No ribbing. No subtle trim of colour or polka dots. Just safe, easy and simple black. But that started to change after I went to the launch of a friend’s book Socks: The Rule Book. Although it’s aimed…
In 2012, an Ethiopian teenager named Abenezer Temesgen had a brilliant idea. His plan? To get disadvantaged kids off the streets of Addis Abba through skateboarding, even though he didn’t have the funds, equipment or even a skatepark. But since then, he’s shared his mission with the help of Californian photographer…
There are some cuisines that are at the core of London’s culinary scene: unfortunately, West African food is not one of them. Not yet, anyway. Jason’s Little Kitchen, a supperclub devoted to Ghanaian cuisine, is on a mission to change that. The main man himself invited me to one of his…
I’d never heard of Ta-Nehisi Coates until an episode of This American Life. The exact theme escapes me, but the story where his name popped up was about a guy who had writer friend he’d grown up with but he’d become so famous, he was rubbing shoulders with Barack and…
On my recent holiday to Tokyo I couldn’t help but notice how stylish Japanese people (and dogs!) were, often in their own unique way. Here’s some of my favourite sightings (all pics shot on a Canon 5D Mark 1 with a 24-105mm lens): …