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The healthier lifestyle magazine for Africans Issue 20 - Winter 2018 FREE COPY KING SMADE Setting the NATIONAL Afrobeat HIV TESTING scene WEEK alight 5 reasons why you should get involved What SEXUAL BLACK CONSENT What does PANTHER it actually taught us mean? about Africa PLUS ADOPTION. HEALTH. SUPPORT. Linford Christie, 57, Athlete As black men we face a higher risk of prostate cancer. Know the facts. strongerknowingmore.org © Dennis Morris assisted by Bolade Banjo Prostate Cancer UK is a registered charity in England and Wales (1005541) and in Scotland (SC039332). Registered company 02653887. 4924 Mambo advert.indd 2 25/10/2017 16:57 culture Dear Readers, 04 An A-Z of Marvel’s Black Panther from Daphne Welcome to the latest issue of . Kasambala The end of the year is within sight, and what people a year it’s been. We hope to share some 08 Afrobeats legend King Smade talks success of the exciting things that have been happening in our community. health 10 5 reasons why you The latest figures show that stopping HIV is right at our fingertips, it’s a should test for HIV momentous time. All the new ways we have to stop it are working, like treatment and PrEP (find out more inside). But while less people are being diagnosed with cuisine HIV, many of us are testing late and missing out on vital treatment. In this issue 16 Try out Sisi Jemimah’s we speak to a number of people with and without HIV, and they told us five recipe for Jollof Party Rice great reasons why you should get tested now. parenting Kerri Virani takes We’ve been at his heels for months, and we finally tracked down Afrobeats 18 us through the adoption showbiz legend and promoter King Smade who offered his tips for success, process and told us how important it’s been to celebrate and promote African music and its biggest stars. Daphne Kasambala takes a long hard look at Ask the experts Black Panther, and finds that it’s not just another Marvel blockbuster, 24Our experts answer but an immersive experience in African culture, history, folklore and music. your dilemmas Don’t watch the movie without her A-Z guide. In Ask the Experts, our team of health experts, medics and community figures 26 relationships provide solutions to your problems. If you need advice, or some help with a In the light of #MeToo, a guide to sexual consent problem, please get in touch and one of our experts will respond to you. from FPA Happy reading and from all of us at mambo, we wish you a wonderful support festive season. 28 Help and support Taku Mukiwa African 30 round-up @tht.org.uk News from across the continent © Terrence Higgins Trust, November 2018. Code: 0191001. YOUR COMMENTS PLEASE! Registered office: Find us on 314-320 Gray’s In Road, We would like to know what you think of Facebook London WC1X 8DP. magazine. If you have any questions Terrence Higgins Trust is a www.facebook.com/ registered charity in England about this resource, or would like information and Wales (reg. no. 288527) on the evidence used to produce it, Lifestyle and in Scotland (SC039986). Company reg. no. 1778149. please email @tht.org.uk Follow us A company limited by guarantee. Alternatively, you could write to: on Twitter The Editor, magazine, Cover photograph by @ Lifestyle THOMAS KNIGHTS Terrence Higgins Trust, 314-320 Gray’s Inn Road, London, WC1X 8DP. Winter 2018 03 BLACK PANTHER AN A-Z OF AFRICAN NUGGETS By Daphne Kasambala Black Panther is more than just another Marvel blockbuster. It’s the first based on a black African superhero, but it also strives to represent Africa as the culturally rich place it is, adopting its history, mythology and folklore, and showcasing its attributes and heroic elements in a way that’s both Marvel Studios’ BLACK PANTHER: T’Challa/Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman) empowering and entertaining. Photo: Matt Kennedy ©Marvel Studios 2018 Enjoy this spoiler-free A-Z guide – don’t watch the movie without it! FROFUTURISM distinctive wool Basotho Blankets AThe movie owes its vision to Afrofuturism, (the Seanamarena, which means ‘to swear by imagining a radical utopian future, incorporating the Chiefs’ in Sotho language). African and Diasporan peoples. It emerged in the 1950s, a reaction to injustices faced by African Americans, and appears in literature (read Octavia Butler’s sci-fi books), art and music (think George Clinton and the jazz musician Sun Ra), and is still adopted by artists like Erykah Badu, Solange Knowles and Janelle Monae. Marvel Studios’ BLACK PANTHER: Ayo (Florence Kasumba) and Okoye (Danai Gurira) ASOTHO Film Frame ©Marvel Studios 2018 BAlthough Wakanda is a fictional place, the Wakandan Border Tribe borrows heavily from OMBAT COSTUME DESIGN the BaSotho people of the Kingdom of Lesotho. CBlack Panther’s Virbanium-infused combat Basotho, a herdspeople, have lived in southern gear and the all-female Dora Milaje royal guards’ Africa since the 5th century, using horses to uniforms are the epitome of Afrofuturism, using navigate the mountains, and wearing the traditional African geometric shapes. 04 Winter 2018 ANCE butter from the Namibian Himba people, DLook out for infusions of styles of dancing the modern plaits worn by from West, Southern and East Africa throughout Leticia Wright’s Shuri, the rituals. the sub-Saharan turbans, the simple and LDERS COUNCIL practical ENote the elders of the five tribes of Wakanda headscarves, seen in council session, placing Black Panther’s or Lupita collective wisdom unique among the Marvel Nyong’o’s superheroes. natural curly tresses. ACE MARKINGS, FSCARIFICATION & TATTOOS NDIGO Look for Forest Whitaker’s red clay markings that IForest echo those of the Karo people of Ethiopia, Daniel Whitaker’s Kaluuya’s and Michael B Jordan’s scarifications spiritual like those from West and Eastern Africa and the leader Zuri Congo Basin, Danai Gurira’s shaven head tattoos and his tribe (seen in Central Africa and the Sahara region), adorned with Marvel Studios’ BLACK PANTHER: Zuri (Forest Whitaker) and the ceremonial chalk markings of Lupita brilliant indigo Photo: Matt Kennedy Nyong’o’s Nikai’s River Tribe. robes and caftans ©Marvel Studios 2018 remind us of the ESTURES nomadic peoples of G(TYPICALLY AFRICAN) sub-Saharan Africa. Watch out for the formal salute of Wakanda, the EWELLERY & ADORNMENTS affectionate JDora Milaje jewellery is both adornment and handshake protection in the all-female army. Wonderful to between T’Challa see the gorgeous Fulani and Tuareg gold and and his younger silver jewellery make its appearance among the sister Shuri, and the Merchant and other tribes. high-fiving often exchanged among IONDO BASKETS people sharing a joke. KIn the 80’s and 90’s, everyone in East Africa seemed to own a sisal woven Kiondo bag. HAIR STYLES Spot them in the street market scenes. AND HEAD GEAR IP PLATES Appreciate LIsaach De Bankole’s Elder of the River Tribe the awesome wears a lip clay plate, a body modification Zulu-inspired hats of practiced from 8700 BC among the Sara people Angela Bassett’s and Lobi of Chad, the Makonde of Tanzania and Ramonda, the Mozambique and the Suri and Mursi people of Wakandan Merchant Ethiopia. This rather brutal look is balanced in the Tribe’s thick hair locs movie with modern, stylish Sapeur-like clothing treated with oxidised of Congo. red clay and shea Marvel Studios’ BLACK PANTHER: Erik Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan) Film Frame ©Marvel Studios 2018 Winter 2018 05 USIC MThe musical backdrop reflects African and Diaspora traditional and modern sounds, from Senegalese singer Baaba Maal, to SA House, African drum, and hip hop. DEBELE NWALL ART Don’t miss the bold, colourful wall art peppered all over Wakanda’s interior spaces and market streets that’s inspired by Marvel Studios’ BLACK PANTHER: the unique Ndebele and Malian Nakia (Lupita Nyong’o) and Shuri (Letitia Wright) traditions. Photo: Matt Kennedy ©Marvel Studios 2018 MO RIVER VALLEY OThe little-known Omo Valley/Lake Turkana area of southern Ethiopia/northern Kenya is rich with distinct cultural practices and traditions. Think face paints, lip plates, metal jewellery, shaven and plaited hairstyles, floral headpieces. EOPLES & TRIBES OF AFRICA Marvel Studios’ BLACK PANTHER: Wakanda PLook out for influences from the Yoruba, Igbo Film Frame..©Marvel Studios 2018 and Akan peoples of West Africa, the Bambara, Maasai, Himba, Tuareg, Songhai and Fulani. SYMBOLS, SUDANO-SAHELIAN & SHONA ARCHITECTURE UEENS In the iconography and symbols inscribed QWe salute the regal Queen Ramonda, mother into the furniture, walls, street signage and of Black Panther, but also the queens with a small costumes of Wakanda, you can see clear ‘q’. According to Coogler, Black Panther was an links to ancient African languages and opportunity to illustrate the importance of women, symbols including the Nsibidi, Punic, a chance to show a side of feminine beauty and Adinkra, Hieroglyph and Mudcloth strength we don’t see in most mainstream media, inscriptions. from the all-female Dora Milaje army, the fearless Nikai, and tech-savvy Shuri. Timbuktu’s buildings are given the Afrofuturistic treatment, and watch EMEDIES out for the Sudano-Sahelian RWithout colonialism and Christianity architecture of the peoples of (often branding traditional medicine as ungodly the Sahel and Sudanian grassland and uncivilised), many think African traditional regions of West Africa, south of the herbal medicine would have flourished. Sahara, and the Shona architecture of In Wakanda, modern and traditional science modern-day Zimbabwe, with tall work side-by-side. cylindrical towers built out of stone. Marvel Studios’ BLACK PANTHER: T’Challa/Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman) Photo: Matt Kennedy ©Marvel Studios 2018 06 Winter 2018 EXTILES women who served under the Fon king, who ruled TBlack Panther blends the glorious textile over a nation including present-day southern Togo traditions from around the continent, including: and southern Benin.