Glam Africa: The Revolutionary Edition (2019)
2019 has been a special year for so many reasons, and Glam Africa is bringing the year - and the decade - to a close with our most ambitious edition ever: The Revolutionary Edition. In this edition, the reality TV phenomenon is front-and-centre, with Love Island star Ovie Soko joining us for his first ever cover shoot, as well as a fashion cover featuring Big Brother Naija and Dancing on Ice stars, power couple Mike and Perri Edwards. To pull off this one-of-a-kind issue, we said sayonara to our in-house editorial team (temporarily) and enlisted a diverse group of talented, young content creators for our first ever ‘digital takeover’, which sees online personalities including bloggers, presenters and YouTubers adapting their digital expertise for print media. Very few publications can boast such a diverse range of content, and whatever it is you're looking for, GA has got you covered. We might as well have called this ‘The Egalitarian Issue’, because there really is something for everyone.
2019 has been a special year for so many reasons, and Glam Africa is bringing the year - and the decade - to a close with our most ambitious edition ever: The Revolutionary Edition. In this edition, the reality TV phenomenon is front-and-centre, with Love Island star Ovie Soko joining us for his first ever cover shoot, as well as a fashion cover featuring Big Brother Naija and Dancing on Ice stars, power couple Mike and Perri Edwards. To pull off this one-of-a-kind issue, we said sayonara to our in-house editorial team (temporarily) and enlisted a diverse group of talented, young content creators for our first ever ‘digital takeover’, which sees online personalities including bloggers, presenters and YouTubers adapting their digital expertise for print media. Very few publications can boast such a diverse range of content, and whatever it is you're looking for, GA has got you covered. We might as well have called this ‘The Egalitarian Issue’, because there really is something for everyone.
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Colin Kaepernick, Restoring the
dignity of a man’s life
When future generations talk about historical
figures who were “on the right side of history”
despite reproach in their own day, we imagine
that Kaep will be at the top of their list. A
natural athlete, Colin Kaepernick was destined
to be one of the top quarterbacks in Americanfootball.
However, in 2016, after deciding
to 'take a knee' during the national anthem
in protest against police brutality, Kaepernick
became public enemy number one to detractors
of the Black Lives Matter movement. At the time,
he said, “I am not going to stand up to show
pride in a flag for a country that oppresses
black people and people of colour. To me this
is bigger than football and it would be selfish
of me to look the other way.” Kaepernick also
made a ‘Million Dollar Pledge’ to donate to
organizations that worked to fight against
systemic oppression. Sadly, the NFL blacklisted
him as a result of his protest, but Kaep refused
to let this deter his mission. In 2018 Nike
launched a campaign with the athlete using the
slogan “Believe in something, even if it means
sacrificing everything.”
Trevor Noah, Tapping into a joyous
Africa
Famously known as the comedian who was
‘born a crime’ (also the title of his 2016
autobiography), Trevor Noah has broken
through the glass ceiling of success, becoming
the first African host of the American late-night
programme, The Daily Show, which was
previously hosted by Jon Stewart. Trevor’s story
is one of an unconventional family structure told
through the eyes of a child who had all the
odds stacked against him, starting with South
Africa's apartheid system, which put him in a
peculiar and unpleasant situation as a mixed
race child. In 2018, he launched the Trevor
Noah Foundation with the aim of developing
brighter futures for vulnerable youth in South
Africa, through education.
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