AphroChic Magazine: Issue No. 1
Welcome to the Fall 2019 issue of AphroChic Magazine. Designed to celebrate the presence, innovation and accomplishments of creatives of color from all corners of the African Diaspora, we welcome the season in this issue with a focus on fashion, authentic beauty, and creating moments that bind us together. On the cover, New York fashion stylists, Courtney and Donnell Baldwin of Mr. Baldwin Style invite us to experience a fête in a historic part of Sag Harbor. We take a look inside the Brooklyn home of fashion designer and movement artist, Nana Yaa Asare-Boadu and experience her effortless aesthetic. Then, we go half way around the world on a photographic journey of Morocco, with photographer Lauren Crew. Along the way, you’ll find articles that explore the nature of the African Diaspora, the importance of the Black family home, and the books, art and accessories you’ll want to bring home this season.
Welcome to the Fall 2019 issue of AphroChic Magazine. Designed to celebrate the presence, innovation and accomplishments of creatives of color from all corners of the African Diaspora, we welcome the season in this issue with a focus on fashion, authentic beauty, and creating moments that bind us together.
On the cover, New York fashion stylists, Courtney and Donnell Baldwin of Mr. Baldwin Style invite us to experience a fête in a historic part of Sag Harbor. We take a look inside the Brooklyn home of fashion designer and movement artist, Nana Yaa Asare-Boadu and experience her effortless aesthetic. Then, we go half way around the world on a photographic journey of Morocco, with photographer Lauren Crew. Along the way, you’ll find articles that explore the nature of the African Diaspora, the importance of the Black family home, and the books, art and accessories you’ll want to bring home this season.
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Travel<br />
Abu Bakr ibn Umar, leader of the<br />
Almoravids, and his top lieutenant<br />
Yusuf ibn Tashfin were continuing<br />
a fight begun by Abu Bakr’s brother<br />
Yahya ibn Umar and their teacher, the<br />
Maliki jurist and preacher Abdullah<br />
ibn Yasin. Both had fallen in battle,<br />
leaving it to Abu Bakr and Yusef to<br />
continue to expand their dominion,<br />
and with it their vision of Islam.<br />
Unrivaled in combat, the Almoravids<br />
were unbeaten on the field and<br />
were, at that moment, suffering the<br />
consequences of their success. They<br />
had conquered and occupied Aghmat,<br />
a wealthy and sophisticated city, but<br />
the courtly life of a crowded city was<br />
proving impossible for an army of<br />
hardened desert nomads.<br />
Abu Bakr and Yusef had gone into<br />
the desert seeking a solution - a place<br />
where the Almoravids could build<br />
the type of military encampment<br />
their ranks were used to, defensible<br />
and efficient, with lots of open space.<br />
When they found what they had been<br />
looking for, work on the new encampment<br />
began.<br />
From that time on, the city of<br />
Marrakech has stood for more than<br />
900 years. It has been the capital of<br />
an empire that stretched from present-day<br />
Senegal up through much of<br />
Spain and across most of <strong>No</strong>rth Africa.<br />
It has been a center of learning and<br />
philosophy, a hotbed of sedition, and<br />
the seat of rulers, rebels, and tyrants<br />
alike. It has been besieged, sacked,<br />
restored, colonized, and liberated.<br />
Today, from the Koutoubia<br />
mosque to the Almoravid koubba<br />
(bathhouse), through the maze-like<br />
passages of the souks, to the open<br />
plaza of the Medina, Marrakech - like<br />
all ancient places - carries the weight<br />
of its history. In every moment there<br />
is an almost tangible sense of all that<br />
has come before.<br />
But Marrakech is not simply a<br />
place of the past. Its arts, architecture<br />
and culture continue to touch the<br />
world, influencing everything from<br />
the fashion of Yves Saint-Laurent to<br />
modern interior design. Few places<br />
on earth bridge the gap between the<br />
old world and the new so well. This is<br />
Marrakech, a city in pictures. AC<br />
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aphrochic