Issue Four

DID YOU KNOW

The “LIKE” button was originally called the “AWESOME“ button.

“15 minutes” of exercise everyday can add 3years to your life.

ALMOST

Your shoes are the first thing people subconsciously notice about you. Always wear nice shoes

“ALMOST” is the longest word in the English Language with all the letters in alphabetical order

NOT JUST A MAGAZINE - A MOVEMENT

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MEETDJ TOXXYK

PHOTOGRAPHY BY FRANK AXEL

VARIOUS ARTISTS “RIPTIDE” LUKE COMBS “WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS” MIKE POSNER “I TOOK A PILL IN IBIZA“ LEON BRIDGES “RIVER“ FEVER TRIBE “THE BALANCE“ RUTH “LOST BOY“ WHITNEY HOUSTON “MY LOVE IS YOUR LOVE“ THE REVIVALISTS “WISH I KNEW YOU“ LENNY KRAVITZ “ALWAYS ON THE RUN“ MILEY CYRUS “THE CLIMB“

PAN AFRICANISM

Ron Karenga, also known as Maulana Ndabezitha Karenga is an African-American professor of Africana studies, activist and author, best known as the creator of the pan-African and African-American holiday of Kwanzaa. Karenga was active in the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and co-founded with Hakim Jamal the black nationalism and social change organization US. Born in Parsonsburg, Maryland to an African-American family, Karenga studied at Los Angeles City College and the University of California, Los Angeles. During his student years, he involved himself in activism and joined the Congress of Racial Equality. Through his activism, he became involved in violent clashes with the Black Panther Party.

In 1971, he was convicted of felonious assault and false imprisonment. He was imprisoned in California Men’s Colony until he received parole in 1974. He received his PhD shortly afterward and began a career in academia. Pan-Africanism is a worldwide intellectual movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all people of African descent. Based upon a common fate going back to the Atlantic slave trade, The movement extends beyond continental Africans, with a substantial support base among the African diaspora in the Caribbean, Latin America and the United States. It is based on the belief that unity is vital to economic, social, and political progress and aims to “unify and uplift” people of African descent.

The ideology asserts that the fate of all African peoples and countries are intertwined. At its core Pan-Africanism is “a belief that African peoples, both on the continent and in the diaspora, share not merely a common history, but a common destiny”. The Organization of African Unity (now the African Union) was established in 1963 to safeguard the sovereignty and territorial integrity of its Member States and to promote global relations within the framework of the United Nations. The African Union Commission has its seat in Addis Ababa and the Pan-African Parliament has its seat in Johannesburg and Midrand.

Pan-Africanism represents the aggregation of the historical, cultural, spiritual, artistic, scientific, and philosophical legacies of Africans from past times to the present. Pan-Africanism as an ethical system traces its origins from ancient times, and promotes values that are the product of the African civilizations and the struggles against slavery, racism, colonialism, and neo-colonialism.

Karenga created Kwanzaa in 1966 to be the first pan-African holiday. He said his goal was to “give Blacks an alternative to the existing holiday and give Blacks an opportunity to celebrate themselves and their history, rather than simply imitate the practice of the dominant society.” It is inspired by African “first fruit” traditions, and the name chosen is from Swahili, “matunda ya kwanza.”

The rituals of the holiday promote African traditions and Nguzo Saba, the “seven principles of African Heritage” that Karenga described as “a communitarian African philosophy”:

# Umoja (unity)—To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.

# Kujichagulia (self-determination)— To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves.

# Ujima (collective work and responsibility)—To build and maintain our community together and make our brother’s and sister’s problems our problems and to solve them together.

# Ujamaa (cooperative economics)— To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.

# Nia (purpose)—To make our collective vocation the building and development of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.

# Kuumba (creativity)—To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.

# Imani (faith)—To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle

MEET

MAKTAIN

A SOUTH AFRICAN - RWANDAN RAPPER BASED IN KIGALI HIS SMOOTH VOICE OVER SOMETIMES JAZZY IS SURE TO MAKE YOU WANT TO MOVE. ENJOY GETTING TO KNOW THE TALENTED

RAPPER BELOW:

MISS RWANDA 2018

HER NAME IS IRADUKUNDA LILIANE SHE WAS CROWNED AS MISS RWANDA AND MISS PHOTOGENIC ON 24 FEBUARY 2018, SHE IS 18 YEARS OLD. HEIGHT 1.70cm, WEIGHT 57, WITH OVER 26K FOLLOWERS ON INSTAGRAM

HOW DO YOUOVERCOME FEAR ?

Natacha . POLAND, LUBLIN

As a child, I would always run into my mom’s arms because it was the safest place in the world! But now, I do my best to face it and if it is too big for me to face alone,

I do not hesitate to ask for help to those that I trust! And what I like about facing my fears, they leave me a lesson and make me a stronger and better person in all the ways.

PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANTHONY MAES

MEET

JAZIL

MANZI JAZIL

“I’M NOT A RAPPER”

Tell us more about yourself ?

Well my real name is Manzi am 21 years old born in Rwanda but haven’t been there in years I grew up in South Africa, cape town. Now living & studying in Belgium I’m proudly Rwanda even though I left at a young age but I have a vision of doing amazing things over when I’m finish studying.

When did you leave Rwanda ?

I left in 2004, I was living in

Kigali, Igikondo

PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANTHONY MAES

What do you do?

I have been doing graphic design for four years now & I’ll be finished in a few months. And I got a clothing line dropping next year I want it to go worldwide that’s first of my long term goals

ABOUT US

Why You Need to Tell Your Story to the world Who are you? I bet you have a story to tell. Will you tell it? What would be the cost to you in your life if you choose not to tell your story? What would you like to share with the people who know you- and those who don’t?

WHO ARE WE ?

We are an online magazine providing space for the youth to create and share their stories through art. It is important that we see ourselves in these spaces, showing that we do exist and we’re not going anywhere not only for ourselves but, for the future generations to come.

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