Looks like the men are seriously bent on overtaking the women in this column. They are pushing it really hard out there.
Today our focus is on a young, warm hearted 5ft 9″ super talented brother, Abdul Salis. A British actor whose parents are both proudly Ghanaian. Salis’s parents moved from Ghana to London in 1975 and gave birth to him on July 6th 1979.
Though he had been in the industry abroad for several years, he was widely noticed by the world mainly through his role as a paramedic-Curtis Cooper between 2008 and 2009 on the UK’s longest running medical drama CASUALTY which has been running since 6th September 1986.
He has also made countless appearances including being on Hidden City-2002, Trevor’s World of Sport as Barry in 2003, Love Actually as Tony also in 2003, Welcome Home as Isaac in 2004, Animal as Julius in
2004. Sahara as Oumar in 2005, In an episode of Doctor Who (2006)He was also in an episode of cbbc’s M.I. High as Ben Lacy-a footballer.
His talent extends to the stage where he has starred in Blood Wedding and The Road at the Orange Tree Theatre as well as Joe Guy at Tiata Fahodzi. He was in the 2006 production of The Exonerated in London’s Riverside Studios. And then in 2006, the movie Flyboys in which he loosely portrayed aviation pioneer Eugene Jacques Bullard and his comrades from the Lafayette Flying Corps. A role he received much acclaim for because he played it with deep passion.
Day: August 6, 2012
2012 Africa Fashion Week London…The Fashion,The Style & The Glamour!
“The buzz is immense” was the refrain of the event’s official twitter page, and it certainly was, as over 50 designers and probably around 10000 guests and customers descended on Spitalfields for the 2nd annual Africa Fashion Week London.
The exhibition part of the two days fashion event worked very well. There were over 50 stalls of businesses displaying their wares, from the typical wax print dresses to the wax print/kente shoes, bags and earrings, of which I bought a few good pairs, to black hair stalls, black skincare stalls, and of course, African food stalls (from the queues outside those stalls, I bet they chopped the most money).
The series of fashion shows were wonderful in that they showed the variety of clothes, accessories and outfits springing from the African continent. The stereotypical bright colours of West African wax print and East African kitenge were not the predominant material, there were beautifully structured designs, wonderfully elegant dresses and sharply tailored original shirts and mens outfits that I think can rival the big fashion houses today.
Many of the designers were of Nigerian origin (the chief organiser and show organiser being Nigerian and many of the media partners being Nigerian), but there was a mix of designers from all over Africa, I was wowed by a particular fashion house’s designs, and even more so to find to find that they are based in Ethiopia. Ghana was well represented by Kiki Clothing and House of Adjeiwaah, the latter of which opened the show on the 2nd day.
Speaking to Menaye Donkor afterwards on the Saturday, she agreed, and said how much she enjoys representing African fashion and she is proud of how far it is going. She agreed when I referred to her extensive modelling experience in New York, London and Milan and suggested that African fashion is more than ready to take them on.
Menaye further told GhanaCelebrities.Com that she is committed to lending her support to African fashion and is excited to see how it is taking the world by storm
A few minor points of contention-while Spitalfields was great for the exhibition part, I’m not convinced that it worked for the fashion shows-seating was only available for VIP guests (£50 a ticket) and the press stage was tiny-there was about 50 of us crammed on a three platform short stage.
2012 Africa Fashion Week London…The Fashion,The Style & The Glamour!
“The buzz is immense” was the refrain of the event’s official twitter page, and it certainly was, as over 50 designers and probably around 10000 guests and customers descended on Spitalfields for the 2nd annual Africa Fashion Week London.
The exhibition part of the two days fashion event worked very well. There were over 50 stalls of businesses displaying their wares, from the typical wax print dresses to the wax print/kente shoes, bags and earrings, of which I bought a few good pairs, to black hair stalls, black skincare stalls, and of course, African food stalls (from the queues outside those stalls, I bet they chopped the most money).
The series of fashion shows were wonderful in that they showed the variety of clothes, accessories and outfits springing from the African continent. The stereotypical bright colours of West African wax print and East African kitenge were not the predominant material, there were beautifully structured designs, wonderfully elegant dresses and sharply tailored original shirts and mens outfits that I think can rival the big fashion houses today.
Many of the designers were of Nigerian origin (the chief organiser and show organiser being Nigerian and many of the media partners being Nigerian), but there was a mix of designers from all over Africa, I was wowed by a particular fashion house’s designs, and even more so to find to find that they are based in Ethiopia. Ghana was well represented by Kiki Clothing and House of Adjeiwaah, the latter of which opened the show on the 2nd day.
Speaking to Menaye Donkor afterwards on the Saturday, she agreed, and said how much she enjoys representing African fashion and she is proud of how far it is going. She agreed when I referred to her extensive modelling experience in New York, London and Milan and suggested that African fashion is more than ready to take them on.
Menaye further told GhanaCelebrities.Com that she is committed to lending her support to African fashion and is excited to see how it is taking the world by storm
A few minor points of contention-while Spitalfields was great for the exhibition part, I’m not convinced that it worked for the fashion shows-seating was only available for VIP guests (£50 a ticket) and the press stage was tiny-there was about 50 of us crammed on a three platform short stage.
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