Jambo! That's how you say 'Hello' in my home country. As I mentioned before, I come from Kenya, a country in East Africa. My town being Mombasa, it has a rich history of different foreigners (Arabs, Portuguese, Persians and Indians) who settled and intermarried with the Africans, leaving a trail of their cultures with us including architecture,how we dress and how we do our ceremonies . Fort Jesus by the Portuguese I am a product of this mixture of foreign settlers and the Africans, they call us the Swahili people. I have a great grandmother missing 6 lower teeth from Kendubay and the other great grandmother with Facial tattoos from the caves of Hadhramaut, and yes they both moved from their native homes to Mombasa and were buried here. Growing in the Afro- Arab community, there are a lot of superstitions that have been moving from generations to generations! I won't go into all of them, I will just go and share the hair -related ones ( coz am all abo...
Ayubowan! Welcome back to our blog! With new exciting news... This week we managed to Launch our new look! Yes! Afrolanka finally has a new look. Our Designer @Nasra.n.ali was incharge of our re- branding and she is far the best I have ever worked with. She was keen enough to listen and understand what vision and idea I had,plus she had fun with it in the process -which made her creativity shine even more! As you all know, Afrolanka is a hand made product (with so much love and care), this is precisely why I wanted our logo hand written too; so that it could reflect that special essence . So Yes! Our logo was written by hand! Since I relate much to Ayurveda and boho style, I wanted the look to be bohemian, hence the Bohemian fonts. Most of the Afrolanka Family relate a lot to the 'pink' color from our prior logo,i decided to keep a little bit of the pink as well in the new look, hence the pink dots.(I just love how she incorporated them!) Finally for the i...