Jackie Appiah on the cover of Genevieve magazine, Watch the making of the cover

Beautiful Ghanaian actress Jackie Appiah is on the latest issue of Genevieve magazine. Watch the making of the cover after the jump

Genevieve Making the Cover with Jackie Appiah from Diaspora Marketing on Vimeo.

I have an authentic, God-given talent, drive, and longevity........Beyonce Responding To Rumoured Rivlary With Rihanna

On working with Kanye again for 4 and him moving her to tears

“The fact that he’s belting out his pain, his confusion, and his anger, with no pre-written lyrics, was so moving,” she says. “He’s singing his heart out for five minutes. He is so vulnerable. I love when an artist can be so honest.”

 On her admiration of her husband's talent

“Jay’s music is more than music. His lyrics have fathered generations.  All that he has overcome gives millions so much hope. There are moments when I see his lips moving and I can see lyrics floating above his head and I think, ‘Wow! How did I get so lucky to be able to witness this level of genius so closely?’

On her constant rumored rivalry with Rihanna

“There is

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room on this earth for many queens. I have an authentic, God-given talent, drive, and longevity that will always separate me from everyone else. I’ve been fortunate to accomplish things that the younger generation of queens dream of accomplishing. I have no desire for anyone else’s throne. I am very comfortable in the throne I’ve been building for the past 15 years.”On working with Frank Ocean after hearing him for the first time

“Jay had a CD playing in the car one Sunday when we were driving to Brooklyn. I noticed his tone, his arrangements, and his storytelling. I immediately reached out to him—literally the next morning. I asked him to fly to New York and work on my record.”

How she deals with bad days

“I only allow myself one day to feel sorry for myself. People who complain really get on my nerves. When I’m not feeling my best I ask myself, ‘What are you gonna do about it?’ I use the negativity to fuel the transformation into a better me.”

On why she went with this new ecelctic sound for 4

Figuring out a way to get R&B back on the radio is challenging.  Everything sounds the same on the radio. With 4 I tried to mix R&B from the ’70s and the ’90s with rock ‘n’ roll and a lot of horns to create something new and exciting. I wanted musical changes, bridges, vibrata, live instrumentation, and classic songwriting.”

Check out Complex for her full interview and more pics.  And peep the behind the scenes video of Mrs. Knowles Carter working it out at the cover shoot:

Agbani Darego rocks a Jewel by Lisa jacket on the latest cover of Mania Magazine

The second issue of Mania magazine is out. The magazine which is tagged 'The travel issue' has ex miss world and the current face of Arik airline Agbani Darego on it's cover.

She talks about being a role model to young girls and let's us into her private life.

We also get to hear from musician Olu Maintain and Tv host Yvonne Vixen Ekwere.

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Britain's biggest selling paper 'News Of The World' to close down over phone hacking scandal

One of Britain's oldest and biggest selling newspaper 'News of the world' is reportedly going to close down on Sunday 10th July after it's final  edition, forcing around 200 people to loose their jobs. The 168 year old  paper is immersed in allegations of phone hacking. Read more here.

Kate Henshaw and J Martins Grace Complete Fashion Cover

Screen goddess Kate Henshaw and musician J.Martins are on the double cover of the latest Complete fashion magazine. 

Both covers are interesting as they contrast each other, with J martins showing his laid back approach to fashion through his simple yet stylish look .

Kate on the other hand showed her glamorous side in her one shoulder  white and purple gown. Her hair style is  done elegantly giving her this retro Hollywood glamour.

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Fab Magazine's double ‘Escapism Issue’

Fab magazine is out with it's june double cover issue tagged the  ‘Escapism Issue’ .

As well as obtaining exclusive interviews with the comeback king Bilal and the brilliant Blitz the Ambassador, in this issue FAB Magazine managed to sit down with Nigerian multi-platinum selling, award-winning musician singer-songwriter Darey Art Alade – his first major UK interview. Zimbabwe’s talented twosome Bkay and Kazz and up and coming artists Retta and Bluey Robinson also add to the list of big names featured in this jam-packed sixth edition. Fashion is also not left out in this issue as they explore the latest fashion trend..'Colour blocking'.

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Will Smith schools us on what 'Men really Want' in a relationship

In a recent interview with Essence magazine , actor Will Smith revealed the screts to a happy relationship with your beau, schooling us on not only love and marriage, but what men need to be happy. Excerpts.....

If You Marry Your Best Friend, You’re Good

Every man wants to marry his homie, Will explained. A lot of women will impress them, but it’s the one they can

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 always laugh with and be themselves with that will ultimately impress them the most

 If you can be yourselves around each other, 100 percent of the time, and they can make you life like no one else can, you’ll never have a dull moment together.

Remind Him of What He Has

When you start to feel that you’re nagging your husband to the point of no return and nothing you’re saying is getting through, Will suggests you try a new approach. Hold him close, look him right in the eyes, and tell him that you love him, you’re right there, and you always will be, BUT you need him to pick his socks up – right now.  As Will puts it, it’s important to remind him that your request is coming from a good place, and what you want is a small thing in the grand scheme of things. Um, genius!

All Men Need A Little Space“

If you don’t give your husband thirty minutes to himself when he first gets home he’ll stop coming home,” Will told me, straight up. (You’re thinking, no way, right? I did too!) When I asked Will when a wife was supposed to say her piece, he responded, “anytime after that.” Will reminded me that everyone’s home needs to feel like a happy place, and it won’t if you’re “greeted with negativity” every time you enter the door. Touché Will. Talk about a pause for the cause.

Focus on Balance and Excitement Always

According to Will and Jada’s way of thinking about marriage, maintaining a happy union isn’t just about making time for one another, it’s about making the time count too. Excitement and mystery are everything, he said. Surprise them, let them know you love them, laugh together – whatever it takes to put a smile on their face.

All the men who dated and dumped Genevieve?

These mags and ther stories sef! They help you keep track of everything.

Beyonce on the cover of Time magazine.......Reveals 7 looks that helped shape her career

The Beyonce cover reign continues. The singer is on the cover of the latest edition of Time magazine.

In related gist, the singer revealed to W magazine 7 iconic looks that helped shape her career.

She tells the Magazine that she prefers choosing outfits that her fans could buy and that her mission is to play a “Powerful Woman” in every video.

Check the iconic moments below......

On “CRAZY IN LOVE” (2003)“I had just turned 21, and this was my first solo video. I wanted to be a female version of James Dean and wear an iconic white T-shirt and jean shorts. I always think about

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wearing something a fan could buy and make her own; as a young girl I remember seeing so many artists, and then I’d try to dress like them. I sewed zippers on my jackets to be like Michael Jackson.

I’m wearing red pumps in the video. As a child I trained myself to dance in very high heels. At 13, in Destiny’s Child, we were told to wear heels, but at first we couldn’t walk in them. We couldn’t keep our knees straight. But we learned, and that became the image of Destiny’s Child: so young and so glamorous. Now I have a rule that my dancers have to wear their heels when I’m wearing my heels. They say, ‘Please take your shoes off, Beyoncé.’ At home, I’m always barefoot. And I have a heavy walk without heels. When they hear me thumping through the house, they say, ‘Oh—Beyoncé’s up!’”

Sasha Fierce was born during the ‘Crazy in Love’ video. I’m naturally a shy person, and I was used to performing in a group, where it’s about female camaraderie—we were all going through the same things at the same time. As Sasha Fierce, I was on my own. It was about letting go, about showing my sensuality in a new way: I became Sasha Fierce.”

On “WHY DON’T YOU LOVE ME” (2010)This video was a secret: I paid for and codirected it and didn’t tell my label or my management. The clothes and jewelry are from my closet, the wigs are mine, and I did my own makeup. We did eight looks in one day in this great house that belonged to a producer who worked with Dorothy Dandridge. He had pictures of her on the wall, so her spirit is in the video, too. I love Super 8 film and wanted to get those saturated colors. It’s a different drama—the tears and martinis and cigarettes. I wanted to channel the past for the present.”

 “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)” (2008)—-”My mom made the one-shouldered bodysuits the night before the video. Again, I wanted to wear something that any fan could wear. I’m obsessed with Bob Fosse, and I always saw the look of this video as very simple, very Fosse-inspired. It was one of the hottest days on record in New York, and we didn’t know it at the time, but we were shooting in an old porn studio. I began to get suspicious because every dressing room had a theme. I was in the jungle room, and I realized they had made a porno in there. There was no air-conditioning in the studio and that added to the drama—we were shiny and sweaty.”

“Deja Vu” (2006)—-We shot this in New Orleans right after Hurricane Katrina, and the choreography was almost tribal in my mind. There’s something spiritual about Louisiana, where my family is from, and I thought of Josephine Baker. She had a way of dancing that was almost possessed. I used her as a reference and combined her with Brigitte Bardot. My hair, the bustier: It’s very Bardot. I love to mix things that you wouldn’t put together–like Barker and Bardot. They both had that French influence, which is really strong in Louisiana.

Sasha Fierce Album Art (2008)—”I’m wearing a gold-plate breastplate Jose Barrera. It was difficult to put my arms down, which is why they are up in the picture. The gold handpiece was made for me–it’s kind of like a futuristic Michael Jackson glove.
Sasha Fierce was born during the crazy in love video. I’m naturally a shy person, and I was used to performing in a group, where’s it’s about female camaraderie–we were all going through the same things at the same time. As Sasha Fierce, I was on my own. It was about letting go, about showing my sensuality in a new way: I became Sasha Fierce.”

“Telephone” (With Lady Gaga) (2010)—”Gaga is my girl! I’m her biggest fan. When i first saw her perform, I actually called her and said, ‘You are great!’ That was before her popularity hit, and we had a natural connection. Later, she asked me to do her video, and I said, ‘I trust you, Gaga. I’ll do whatever you want me to do.’ I played a bad, bad girl. When I put on the Bettie Page wig, I got into the character. I started researching Bettie Page and tried to channel her pinups and poses. The video ended up being very much like Quentin Tarantino’s movies. He gave us his blessing, even loaned us the car with P*SSY WAGON written on the side from Kill Bill. My mom said, ‘Do you have to use that car?’”

“Run The World (Girls)” (2010) —”This is the power stand, the next chapter of my life. I do this job because it makes me high and inspires people. In the video, most of all I wanted to show that I’m proud to be a woman. I had read about powerful African men who have hyenas as pets, and I wanted to create a world where women run the world, so in the video I have these hyenas as pets. I’m wearing a Givenchy Couture gown and I’m holding up these crazy hyenas. There’s dirt on the dress, but I’m still pure regal. I wanted to push the theatrics to make a point: Women rule.”




  Which is your favourite look? 
         I love her 'Crazy in love' and 'De ja vu' looks. She looked Messy Sexy in 'De ja vu'.
     As for 'Crazy in love'? There is something sexy about red stilletto heels.

Beyonce on the cover of Dazed and Confused magazine

            Singer beyonce is on the July issue of Dazed and Confused magazine.

In the magazine you will spot the diva rocking some eccentric pieces.

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Nike Oshinowo Soleye Shows She Is The 'Business' On Wow Magazine Cover

    You have to give it to the WOW! Magazine team.They know how to put out a beautiful  magazine cover. Ex beauty queen and Style Icon Nike Oshinowo Soleye is rocking a serious pose and shows who the boss is. Rocking  the cover with her, is  current Miss Nigeria, Damilola Agbajo.

  What I love about this cover is the fact that Nike is rocking a trouser suit,but still looks hot. The look is softened with chandelier earrings and sexy red lips.

Damilola also holds her own in that beautiful dress.

Nigerian Designer Deola Sagoe Gets Essence Magazine Feature

Nigerian Designer Deola Sagoe got a feature in Black American magazine Essence recently. Excerpts.........

ESSENCE.com: You've become very well known among African fashion enthusiasts. How do you feel about that success?
DEOLA SAGOE: From the start I always wanted to represent the African woman in terms anybody anywhere would describe as beautiful. I'm Nigerian, I grew up with a lot of natural beauty around me, just here and there without

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pretension. I was amazed by the beauty of the women I grew up with and the way they embodied my culture. This is perhaps the ultimate success of my brand - that we have been able to give the African woman, and more widely the black woman, her own pedestal where she stands in all her beauty and is admired the world over.

After two decades of being in business, what defines my success is that I fused my cultural heritage with an intrinsic sense of beauty and came up with designs that contributed to the fashion dialogue. My designs were chosen, they were recognized and have stood the test of time, lately we have been reaching an ever-wider audience and this itself is success...

ESSENCE.com: As an African designer, you are always seen is a representative of that continent. Is that how you wish to be seen, or as a designer with her own unique worldview?
DEOLA : Every true designer I know has his or her own deeply held point of view. This is usually fashioned by their environment and concerns, but also from that uniqueness that comes from within you, and as such is not defined by geography or location. I'm black, I'm a Nigerian, and I'm a woman - guess it's no surprise that you're going to see that in my work no more than if I was Japanese or Dutch.

ESSENCE.com: So you seek to strictly represent your homeland?
DEOLA: I would like to think I represent an Africa that is still yet to be fully appreciated, an Africa that is not just one homogenous blob but a rich continent of diversity and expression. African cultures are so fluid by the way, it's mixes of European, British, French, Portuguese from our colonial past and American coming in from modern day enterprise and international business. If there's a mixing pot somewhere on this Earth it's got to be Africa that's why things are often very rich here.

ESSENCE.com: How does your Nigerian culture in particular inform your work as a designer?
DEOLA: Nigeria is a nation often debated across the world but actually rarely truly investigated. Nigeria is a strong nation; the people are proud and culturally very rich and diverse. For me it's like a goldmine that I can delve into. I go in the mine and when I return to the light I discover that I have gems of every description, and I'm usually surprised! What I mean is, whenever I'm designing I'll start with some element of my culture and then I'll go on and add myself to it, what I'm feeling at the time, and then, by a miracle, things start to just happen. It's really the most wonderful thing to be a kind of conveyor or channel for something new to come into being, and yet you can feel its lineage.It has a link to history and culture. The Nigerian consciousness has yet to be fully explored but everyday it keeps offering up gems.

ESSENCE.com: You've had the opportunity to show your collection at New York Fashion Week in the past, do you have plans to connect/expand more so into the U.S. market in the future?

DEOLA: Every market interests me. A new market means I can get out my ideas further and receive new ideas too. That's the beauty of a global community. America is especially interesting because there is also a mixing of cultures where ideas fuse together and generally advancement occurs. In America you can make ideas of change happen because there are many schools of thought -  the many body types and body shapes and different aesthetic points of view are all rubbing against each other and this creates energy.

Where we are right now at Deola Sagoe is in the enviable position of being very good at what we do. We are very refined and distilled, from the fabrics we create to the techniques we use to make our garments... The U.S. market is always interested in something good and we kind of feel that right now 'we have the goodness' as it were... (Laughs)
ESSENCE.COM: Who is the Deola Sagoe woman?
DEOLA: The Deola Sagoe woman has the mysterious and engaging complexity that is a gift to all women.One day she is dead serious the next she has the naughtiest sense of humor. One day she is all woman the next she is ingénue. She appreciates meaning in things though, she likes to know that she is part of something larger than just her self- hence her appreciation of our fabrics, which have history (and majesty frankly). She definitely enjoys standing out, she is not a worker bee, but finds it far more interesting when everyone has a different point of view and yet everyone can still get along. She is colorful - she uses color to mirror her mood.

ESSENCE.com: There's a debate going on about whether African designers should feel obligated to use African print in all of their collections. How do you feel about this and do you feel you have a duty to use African prints?
DEOLA: I've never been interested much in restrictions. 'I must be this way and you must be that way' - limiting. And frankly, we do not have the time to be overawed by limits. I use African fabrics but I often mix with many other fabrics. I would actually like to see other designers of the world take an interest in African fabrics. They don't appear to know that much about our fabrics as we have learned a lot about theirs. Also, it's bigger really than prints, which represent only one typology of fabric techniques, mark my words there are so many African fabrics, derived from ingenuitive materials, or made with special techniques... It's like a said before... a treasure trove.

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RMD and family grace june edition of Genevieve magazine

The brand new issue of Genevieve Magazine features one of Nigeria’s finest actors and ladies man Richard Mofe Damijo. In this edition you get to see his cute kids, life as a family man and a whole lot more! Find out all about it in the June 2011 issue of Genevieve Magazine.  Excerpts..........

In the late 80s, he was one of Nigeria’s biggest rising stars. The first actor to be paid a million naira for a movie role, he starred in several award-winning roles and soon became a household name as Segun Kadiri in the popular soap, Checkmate. So when Richard Mofe Damijo checked out of

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his movie career to study for another university degree, you could almost hear the hearts of his fanbase breaking as one. Worse still, when he returned to Nigeria, it wasn’t to take up a script, but an appointment with the Delta state government, first as the Special Adviser on Culture and Entertainment, now as the Commissioner for Culture and Tourism. From movies to politics, RMD has seen it all and lived more lives than most, from experiencing teenage pregnancy to surviving the tragic scandal surrounding the death of his first wife, MEE. But what can compare to his journey as a father? From a reluctant young dad, to a dedicated family man, RMD has now arrived at a place where he is able to say family comes first and know exactly what that means.

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