Hi Patrick. Please tell us a bit about who you are and what you do. I’m Patrick, I’m 40-something years old and I live in London. I was born in Ghana and grew up there until I was seven, when I moved to the UK. I’ve spent most of my life here, studying and now […]
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Montserrat Anguiano is an artist tailor-made for the Afro-descendant generations in Spain. She gives visibility to black women through her painting, achieving the perfect balance between art and identity, and advances the fight for diversity through the beauty of her works. With the launch of her online store, it is now possible to acquire her
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Pokot communities are notorious across East Africa for their supposedly combative, violent nature. Perceived as fearless warriors and cattle herders, legend has it that the Pokot are willing to lose a limb to defend their bovine companions. “We are a very peaceful community,” says Edna Kaptoyo, a Pokot civil society leader, who resents the stereotyping
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An Interview with Michelle Dybele Michelle Dybele is a French actress, film producer and entrepreneur of Central African heritage. Josefina Bonsundy Nvumba, Founder of Rootencial, spoke to Michelle about her various creative ventures, from her short film produced in Côte d’Ivoire and featured at Cannes to the scarves inspired by her grandmother and African history.
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Rotational interview with Narciso Echaca Posa, bubi from Basakato of the Sagrada Familia and Moka. He currently lives in the San Valentín neighborhood and is an entrepreneur, poet and self-taught actor. Narciso discovers what he is passionate about and what he wants to dedicate as an artist since he was 4 years old: He identifies
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Rotational interview with Trifonia Melibea, is a writer and teacher at UNGE, is a member of “we are part of the world” and a collaborator of the IDMA association. Trifonia Melebea could not give an elaborate definition of who she is. For her, the people who define themselves are about people who philosophize. She identifies
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Pamela Ohene Nyako has always been captivated by history. When she was young, she devoured books about ancient Egypt and Greece, learnt about the Holocaust from her German grandmother and was drawn to black history, including learning about legendary American civil rights movement leaders Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. “It was actually easier for
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Rootencial is delighted to introduce Alejandra Evui Salmerón Ntutumu, a telecommunications engineer born in Spain to an Equatorial-Guinean mother from Niefang and to Spanish father from Murcia. Alejandra also defines herself as a multidisciplinary engineer, or social engineer, due to her passion for social projects, charity, and empowering the community. ” I believe that my
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Rootencial is delighted to introduce Emmanuel Awanga, a painter and an artist in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the largest French-speaking city in the world. Exhibiting his work in a vibrant backstreet art market just off Kinshasa’s central Boulevard du 30 Juin, Emmanuel’s colorful creative streak is immediately apparent. Dressed in
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On a drizzly January afternoon, Fungai Marima welcomes Rootencial to her art studio in London’s majestic Old Manor Park Library. One of the UK’s first free public libraries when it opened in 1905, it remained a hub of intellectual exploration for east Londoners for more than a century until it closed in 2011. Fortunately, the
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