Inspiration

Inspiration
Beauty Bank | St Petersburg, Russia
September 27, 2013
Chapter page, Opposite & Above Models wear designer creations during a hair art show at the
international beauty festival “Banks of the Neva River” in St Petersburg.
Photos: Alexander Demianchuk
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Ma Belle | Abidjan, Ivory Coast
October 31, 2013
A model presents a creation during the Miss Rondement Belle
fashion show in Abidjan. The Miss Rondement Belle show, which has
other activities such as a Miss Curvy contest, is aimed at emphasising
that curvaceous women are beautiful, according to organisers.
Photo: Luc Gnago
School’s In | Kerbala, Iraq
September 24, 2013
Above & Left Students attend a class on the first day of the new school
term in Kerbala, 110 km (68 miles) south of Baghdad.
Photos: Mushtaq Muhammed
Pottery Village | Abuja, Nigeria
January 11, 2013
Opposite Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women
Michelle Bachelet of Chile dances with women upon her arrival at Ushafa
pottery village during an official visit to Nigeria’s capital Abuja.
Photo: Afolabi Sotunde
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Peace Pleas | Al-Fashir, Sudan
September 23, 2013
Darfuri women participate in a peace rally on International
Peace Day at the town of Al-Fashir in North Darfur.
Photo: Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah
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Fashion Forward | Almaty, Kazakhstan
October 25-26, 2013
Opposite A model presents a creation by local designer Leonid Zherebtsov
during Kazakhstan Fashion Week in Almaty.
1 A model presents a creation by local designer Kamila Kurbani.
2 A model presents a creation by Russian designer Nina Ruchkina.
3 A model presents a creation by local designer Leonid Zherebtsov.
Photos: Shamil Zhumatov
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Models present creations by Kazakhstan’s LaRiya design house.
Photo: Shamil Zhumatov
Fashion Forward | Minsk, Belarus
November 6, 2013
Models present creations by Belarusian Fashion
Centre during Belarus Fashion Week Spring/Summer
2014 in Minsk.
Photo: Vasily Fedosenko
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Hairpins and Harmony | Juba, South Sudan
August 10, 2013
Above, Opposite & Following Though two-year-old South Sudan is still plagued by violence, the
second edition of the Festival of Fashion and Arts for Peace (FFAP) aims to promote tolerance and
solidarity by uniting people through art. The event in the South Sudanese capital, Juba, showed
creations by three Southern Sudanese and one Ethiopian designer, as well as traditional jewellery
from various different tribes.
Photos: Andreea Campeanu
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Patience’s Peace | Abuja, Nigeria
August 15, 2013
Members of the Cross River state contingent pose for
a photograph during a peace rally organised by the
National Council of Women’s Societies (NCWS).
Photo: Afolabi Sotunde
Above Delegates from Delta state take part in a parade during the peace rally. The rally,
organised by Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan’s wife Patience, is being held to support
her husband’s re-election bid for the 2015 general elections, according to local media.
Below More delegates.
Right Delegates from Akwa Ibom state return from the rally.
Photos: Afolabi Sotunde
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Plastic Ban | Yopougon, Ivory Coast
September 10, 2013
A woman cleans plastic for recycling in the Yopougon area of Abidjan. Ivorian authorities have decided to ban the production,
use and commercialisation of plastic bags by the end of the year.
Photos: Luc Gnago
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Tech Grad | Lagos, Nigeria
October 19, 2012
Tech graduate Titilope Oluwaseyilayo
poses for a picture in front of her house
in the Shomolu district of Lagos, Nigeria.
Photo: Joe Penney
Radio Freedom | Hagadera, Kenya
October 8, 2013
A radio presenter prepares to talk on-air during a live
interview on the programme “Gargaar” (Help in Somali)
on Star FM, a local radio station for refugee voices at a
UNHCR field office in Hagadera, one of the several refugee
settlements in Dadaab, Garissa County, northeastern Kenya.
Photo: Siegfried Modola
Laughter Therapy | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
October 21, 2013
Women attend a laughter therapy exercise during the 11th
National Laughter Day at the National Cultural Institute in
Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa.
Photos: Tiksa Negeri
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First Lady | Tanzania and Senegal
June 27-July 2, 2013
Above U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama gestures as she attends the African First Ladies
Summit in Dar es Salaam, July 2, 2013.
Photo: Gary Cameron
Right A woman in a crowd welcomes U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama outside Martin Luther
King Middle School, an all-girls school where Mrs. Obama spoke in Dakar on June 27, 2013.
U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle are visiting Senegal until June 28 before
travelling to South Africa and Tanzania.
Photo: Joe Penney
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Above Senegalese women and children in traditional garb await the arrival of U.S. President
Barack Obama and members of his family on Goree Island near Dakar. Obama visited the
island on Thursday where African slaves in past centuries were shipped west.
Left U.S. President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama wave from Air Force One as
they depart Dakar. President Obama heads to South Africa on Friday, after wrapping up a visit
to Senegal that focused on improving food security and promoting democratic institutions.
Photos: Jason Reed
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Nelson Mandela | South Africa
December 8, 2013
Left A woman writes a message in memory of the late former South African
President Nelson Mandela at the Nelson Mandela Museum in Qunu.
Photo: Siegfried Modola
Above A woman stands next to a photograph of former South African President
Nelson Mandela at the Nelson Mandela Center Of Memory in Johannesburg.
Photo: Ronen Zvulun
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A woman lights a candle outside the home of former South African
President Nelson Mandela in the Johannesburg suburb of Houghton.
South African anti-apartheid hero Mandela died aged 95 at his
Johannesburg home on December 5 after a prolonged lung infection.
Photo: Ihsaan Haffejee
In Memoriam | South Africa
December 7-10, 2013
People arrive for the national memorial service for late former South African
President Nelson Mandela at the First National Bank (FNB) Stadium, also known
as Soccer City, in Johannesburg.
Photo: Siphiwe Sibeko
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1 A woman sings during a service for former South African President Nelson Mandela,
in the Regina Mundi Church in Soweto, December 8, 2013.
Photo: Kevin Coombs
2 Worshippers take part in a prayer tribute at the Methodist Church of Southern Africa
in the Meadowlands neighbourhood of Soweto, Johannesburg, December 8, 2013.
Photo: Siphiwe Sibeko
3 A girl dances on Vilakazi Street in Soweto, where the former South African President
Nelson Mandela resided when he lived in the township, December 7, 2013.
Photo: Siphiwe Sibeko
4 A woman listens to the sermon during a service in the Regina Mundi Church.
Photo: Kevin Coombs
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A woman joins the public viewing of the
funeral service for South Africa’s late
President Nelson Mandela on a hill above
the graveyard within the Mandela family’s
property in the village of Qunu where
Mandela was buried, December 15, 2013.
Photo: Kai Pfaffenbach