AYUBOWAN

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...

Ayubowan! Ayurveda has been coming up a lot these days, we have seen the younger generations warming up to it and ripping the benefits. This is good and exciting,but of coarse some people do not understand what the fuss is all about, and what this Ayurveda thing is. Is it Herbs?Yoga? Let me help you get on the bus! I have decided to make this small post just to clarify and help you get a gist of what Ayurveda really is. So What is Ayurveda? It is not a thing, not herbs, nor oils... it is actually a science and a practice. Ayurveda is a very very veeeeery ancient holistic healing method of the mind ,body and spirit using everything Nature. (It Originated from India) The way it was taught to me is that, I will keep this so simple for you : Human Body = Hardware Mind & Spirit = Software Ayurveda = How to treat your hardware in order to have a stable,healthy and prolonged Software. So it includes many things like ; Food,Oils, Massages, Meditations and ever...

Welcome to Afrolanka's Official Blog site! I am Nuru, the founder of the Afrolanka Family (Not a big one, but a proud one!)                             I am planning to use this platform to share a little more with you and the rest of the world with regards to my baby (Afrolanka Hair Line). AYUBOWAN ! A Sri Lankan way of greeting, which means 'wishing you a long life' The name Afrolanka ties Africa and Sri Lanka,two different worlds that make up most of me. I was born and raised in Kenya but got the luck to have lived seven years in the pearl of Indian ocean - Sri Lanka. This is where I was first introduced to  AYURVEDA . To Sri Lankans this is their lifestyle. Their daily day-to-day life rotates mainly around Ayurveda, Meditation the  Dharma  (Teachings of their Lord Buddha). I have experienced Ayurveda in its habitat and when it was time for me to go back home, I took that piece ...