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16 / HABARI<br />
KQ destination, Mwanza, is<br />
the fastest-growing city in East<br />
Africa and the second-largest in<br />
Tanzania.<br />
What’s On<br />
Lake Victoria is the world’s largest lake<br />
and lies in three different countries.<br />
Market<br />
Ghanaian Goodies<br />
Are you in Accra, Ghana, and are you looking for a<br />
place to shop for jewellery, hand-sewn shirts, lotions<br />
or a place to have a tasty bite? Check out the city’s<br />
premier pop-up market for food, music and fashion:<br />
the Accra Goods Market. Every seven months, a<br />
hundred vendors gather for the event at Crystal<br />
Park. The last event of the year will be organised on<br />
7 December.<br />
~ instagram.com/theaccragoodsmarket<br />
Q&A<br />
A Female Comic<br />
Book Hero<br />
Ceremony<br />
Lighting up Christmas<br />
In South Africa’s “Mother City”, Christmas doesn’t<br />
start without the traditional lighting of the Christmas<br />
lights at Adderley Street. In the oldest street of<br />
Cape Town, the “Festive Lights Switch-On” marks<br />
the start of the holiday season and takes places on 3<br />
December. After the lights are on, the summer party<br />
is lit as well: Capetonians dance until the wee hours<br />
of the morning, to music performed by some of<br />
South Africa’s biggest artists.<br />
~ mycapetownstay.com/event/Adderley_Street_Festive_Lights<br />
Black Panther’s sister Shuri has her own comic book<br />
series. Msafiri talks with Naijamerican writer Nnedi<br />
Okorafor, who wrote the new Marvel comic about the<br />
Wakandan techno-genius.<br />
What do you like best about Shuri?<br />
She’s just a really great character. There’s so much to her and the challenge<br />
of starting her narrative in its own unlimited series. Slowly lowering the<br />
reader into it is really a joy for me.<br />
Is she the true Black Panther?<br />
I’ve made it a point not to reveal those kinds of details in interviews,<br />
and let people find that out by reading the actual comic. I’m a fan of the<br />
element of surprise. Sometimes it’s best to let a story reveal such things in<br />
the magical way that a narrative can.<br />
How important is Shuri and Black Panther’s Afrofuturism to you?<br />
She’s as important to me as all complex African female powerful and<br />
flawed characters are. I only spend my time writing characters who I<br />
believe are important and powerful.
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