Living the reaspora: Afropolitans back home

Posted By on Apr 16, 2015 in Africa, Allgemein, beauty, city, English, featured, gender, Ghana, globalization, identity, Language, media, migration, mobility, Reaspora, RSS, society, stereotypes, The Analysis

In the web series ‘An African City’, five highly qualified and fashion obsessed young women decide to return to the continent where their ancestors were born – to Africa. Is this the new African elite?

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Are you feeling well today?

Posted By on Feb 21, 2014 in beauty, featured, RSS, science, society, The Analysis

The rise of wellness has been driven by health spa’s need to make money and people’s scepticism towards conventional medicine. A thought on wellness beyond beauty.

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What a woman should be like

Posted By on Jan 23, 2014 in beauty, featured, gender, Germany, media, RSS, society, The Fieldnote, Western Europe

A fieldnote from a hairdressing salon in Munich, Germany (December 2013)

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