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From 26 to 27 June 2021, @festivalafricana coprodu

From 26 to 27 June 2021, @festivalafricana coprodu

From 26 to 27 June 2021, @festivalafricana coprodu

From 26 to 27 June 2021, @festivalafricana coproduced by @fashionafricanausa and @eeloom will honor @cooltablechronicles (Matthew Rugamba) creative director Hose of Tayo.

Matthew “Tayo” Rugamba is the Founder and Creative Director of House of Tayo which he started in 2011 as a college junior. Rugamba formed House of Tayo 11 years ago after returning home to a Rwanda he was just getting to know. House of Tayo was created out of the desire to find a unique way through which to showcase African sophistication, style and flavor through contemporary, locally-made clothing
and accessories.
After graduating from Lewis & Clark College with a B.A in International Affairs, Matthew returned to
Rwanda to expand his business. In July 2014, House of Tayo opened its first store, located in Kigali, Rwanda. Since then he has presented collections at Africa Fashion Week London 2012 and had his work featured in the local and international press – the Huffington Post, Forbes Africa, BBC news, CNN’s African Start-Up to name a few. He has been invited to speak on a variety of issues related to the potential of the African creative industry and youth entrepreneurship at forums such as Wharton Africa Business Forum 2015 and World Economic Forum for Africa 2016. Aside from growing his business, Matthew made it a personal goal to help grow and elevate Rwandan fashion on the regional and international stage.
He co-founded Collective RW in 2015 in a bid to develop the existing industry and help foster the next generation of Rwandan fashion designers and other professionals within the field.
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From 26 to 27 June 2021, @festivalafricana coprodu

From 26 to 27 June 2021, @festivalafricana coproduced by @fashionafricanausa and @eeloom will honor @somimusic (Somi Kakoma) a jazz vocalist.

Acclaimed Grammy-nominated jazz vocalist and writer Somi was born in Illinois to immigrants from Uganda and Rwanda. She is known for her wide-ranging vocal technique, her original blend of modern jazz with African musics, and the innate poetry of her songwriting that often gives voice to issues of social justice, transnationalism, womanhood, and global constructions of Blackness. Known in the jazz
world simply as ‘Somi’, Somi Kakoma has built a career of transatlantic storytelling. She recently
released a live album called ‘Holy Room’, featuring the Frankfurt Radio Big Band. The album earned her a 2021 Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album, making her the first African woman ever nominated in any of the Grammy jazz categories. The album is also nominated for a 2021 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Jazz Vocal Album.
Mentored by the legendary trumpet player Hugh Masekela, Somi’s live performance was described by JazzTimes magazine as “the earthy gutsiness of Nina Simone blended with the vocal beauty of Dianne Reeves,” while Billboard exclaims that she’s “all elegance and awe… utterly captivating.” Also a playwright, Somi was named a Sundance Theatre Fellow for her original musical “Dreaming Zenzile” about the great South African singer and activist Miriam Makeba. A creative who works between the US and Africa, including various collaborations in Rwanda, Somi is a storyteller whose work is deeply rooted in her ancestry. Her new album is coming out in Spring 2021

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From 26 to 27 June 2021, @festivalafricana coprodu

From 26 to 27 June 2021, @festivalafricana coprodu

From 26 to 27 June 2021, @festivalafricana coproduced by @fashionafricanausa and @eeloom will honor @cedric250 (Cedric Mizero) a visual artist.

He was born and raised in a small village called Gishoma in the Western Province of Rwanda.
Since he was a teenager he enjoyed experimenting with his clothes and trying styles that would catch the eye of the community around him. In 2012 he moved to Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, where he started to interact with fashion designers, artists, and artisans that supported him in his initial experimentation with
conceptual art and fashion creation. A self-taught artist, Cedric enjoys observing and exchanging with other artists and artisans to learn from their techniques and hard work to stay inspired and motivated with his own development. He chooses to mix disciplines in his work, experimenting with paint, textures, fabrics and still objects, allowing himself to navigate freely through feelings and emotions to bring to his art a voice for love. Cedric feels a very deep connection with nature, culture and people, and his inspiration emerges from the emotional and sensory experiences with his surroundings and the beauty around the small instants of the day-to-day.

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