Beauty Archives - Consciousness.co.za Magazine https://consciousness.co.za/tag/beauty/ Arts and African History Wed, 17 Aug 2016 08:17:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 A Case Study on Miriam Makeba as a Hair and Beauty Icon https://consciousness.co.za/case-study-miriam-makeba-hair-beauty-icon/ https://consciousness.co.za/case-study-miriam-makeba-hair-beauty-icon/#respond Mon, 18 Jul 2016 16:01:08 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=12294 Miriam Makeba is undoubtedly one of the continent’s most famous and prized exports. Though it was through her music that she first went to the UK, and eventually settled in the US, it was her very verbal stance against the injustice of the Apartheid regime, as well as her unapologetic refusal to assimilate into Western [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/case-study-miriam-makeba-hair-beauty-icon/feed/ 0 The Alek Wek Journey https://consciousness.co.za/alek-wek-journey/ https://consciousness.co.za/alek-wek-journey/#comments Sun, 17 Jul 2016 11:52:27 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=12279 Some three years ago I went to an Exclusive Books Warehouse Sale where for R50 one could get a kilogram of books! Amongst the literary treats I picked up was Alek Wek’s autobiography Alek (Amistad). She was the supermodel I’d known about but didn’t really know much about her other than the pictures of her [...]

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