2018

                  

                               Year of black pride 

What a year what a time to be alive, these are some famous phrases heard the most this year at least for me, and what a time to be alive indeed. From movies to real-life fairy tales it has been a really black pride year and I am totally here for it 100% 

This year has been an amazing year filled with what naturally fills life, anger tears joy, and laughter, I have not been spared another blog for another day, today am generally speaking for the black community globally. Who can forget the Wakanda forever felling 

Wakanda Forever  

We opened the year on pretty highs with Black Panther taking our pride levels to cloud nine it was beautiful, men and women boys and girls from across the globe showed up in their numbers to support what really was a black pride moment. 

The was another thing that showed up hair, everyone’s Afro curls and kinks came out to play and I loved every moment, this was more than just a movie it was a movement, a movement that advocated for pride black, this movie did not only showcase black pride but the

the beautiful diversity of the African continent, we will never forget the pride we felt, and then a Cinderella story 

A cinderella story  

                                               Megan in her younger days 

Megan Markel married into the world’s most famous and respected British royal family, sis Megan did it for the culture, she was not playing. It was a beautiful wedding ceremony so different from previous ones, apart from the fact that she's black Megan brought her whole black clan to London, from the pastor who did the most by quoting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr which is enough to get Queen Elizabeth chucking, to a choir that sung slave songs, all in the name of black pride and I love it all! It was so romantic. Girl power all the way

Who runs the world 

These two beautiful women are truly inspirational, these two young ladies are managing very important departments in their countries.  

Bogolo a 30-year-old minister of investment trade and industry in Botswana, she is an economist by profession and is just the future. Also, she rocks her natural hair, what a woman! 

Kamissa is a 35-year-old minister of foreign affairs in Mali, she is clearly not only beautiful but very smart and I,m here for her dark complexion. Yes girl  

Botswana and Mali are officially the coolest countries on the continent. 

This year has been an amazing year, we have seen it all, so we thought until this happened. 

Who runs the world? Girls!!!! 

Sudanese Beauty   

Firstly Wakanda black magic is this? 

It is 18-year-old Sudanese~Australian fashion model Adut Akech Bior who was voted 2018 model of the year, she is shaping the future in-fact she is the future of fashion models. Every dark-skinned girl’ best friend and mine in my head too because she is bold and beautiful, she is proving the undeniable beauty that is black skin women. She has covered many magazines including Vogue Korea and Britain. She is a stunner and a black girl who is rocking! 

Check out her Instagram for some magic

Kylian Mbappè “FriAfrica”  

We went we saw and we conquered, 2018  FIFA world cup was held in cold Russia, and Africa came for everything. France with all the help they could get from Africa won the world cup and the star of the tournament was Mbappè, he was one of the many French players with a direct lineage to Africa, he was fast and played his heart out, literally left his soul on that field, at only 18 he became the second player in the history of football to reach a world cup final and win, of course, Pele of Brazil was first. 

listen, Africa won the cup currently being kept in France, you know like the many arts they are keeping on behalf of Africa. 

52 years, First black Civilization Museum 

Closing off the year on some major bucket list goals, 52 years later after what seemed like a dream Senegal opened the world’s first black civilization museum. 

This state-of-the-art museum will be home to arts collected from around the world by Africans, from Cuban to Nigeria and every nation. 

They have been so much hating anger and pain all around us, even so in the black communities around the world the oppression has been many black killings were on the rise, South Africa, Angola and Namibia still lay on the edge waiting to see if their people will be rewarded the land that was stolen from them many years ago, most sisters and brothers went the natural route and all in all we witnessed black pride in its fullness and we were proud! Thank God for it all

“I can’t believe we made it, this is what we came for” ~Beyonce &JayZ (also visited South Africa this year)

I wish you a happy new year, may God grant all that you ask and guide those you love! 

With love, Gabriella