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The healthier lifestyle magazine for Africans Issue 21 - Summer 2019 FREE COPY LET’S TALK PAMOJA VEGAN NETWORK SOUL - the future FOOD of Africa? Rachel Ama’s plant based kitchen IT STARTS WITH ME PrEP can help us beat HIV LUPITA NYONG’O Dream big PLUS and be WOMEN’S WORLD CUP. yourself HEALTH. SUPPORT. People on effective HIV treatment CANNOT pass on the virus www.tht.org.uk Terrence Higgins Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales (reg. no. 288527) and in Scotland (SC039986). Company reg.no. 1778149. Photograph by Sam Egarr culture Dear Readers, 04 Films and fantastic summer reads Welcome to the latest issue of . people Summer is here. But whether we can look 06 Lupita Nyong’o: icon, star and inspiration forward to a hot and sunny few months or we all need to buy a new umbrella, will soon be revealed. cuisine 08 Vegan soul food with Whatever the weather has in store for us, there are some fabulous events going Rachel Ama on in the next few months, from the One Africa Music Fest in London in August, to the legendary Zimfest in Hertfordshire. We’ve also got great reads from some health of the hottest African writers to recommend, just in case the park is dry and we 11 We find out about PrEP can stretch out for a summer’s read. and how it can help us beat HIV It’s been a busy start to 2019. We’ve seen HIV rates falling faster than ever, summer All the best events not and the UK government has made the incredible commitment to end HIV 18 to miss transmissions by 2030. In order to get there, we have to use all the tools we have to prevent HIV. In this issue of , we take a look at PrEP, the sport exciting new HIV prevention tool that, alongside getting tested regularly and 20 Can Africa shine at the onto treatment straightaway, is our best means of beating HIV. Women’s World Cup? We’re getting inspiration from international icon and Black Panther star Lupita lifestyle Nyong’o, not only the first Kenyan to win an Oscar but the first black woman to 22 5 simple things you can become an ambassador for Lancôme. We talk to some of the inspirational do to save the planet members of Pamoja Network, the youth driven organisation that is connecting young global leaders to tackle Africa’s challenges. Rachel Ama shares her Ask the experts Our experts answer your recipe for Peanut Stew, a must if you are up for trying out vegan soul food. 24 dilemmas In Ask the Experts, our team of health experts, medics and community figures people provide solutions to your problems. 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Alternatively, you could write to: @ Lifestyle Cover photograph by The Editor, magazine, DFree/Shutterstock.com Terrence Higgins Trust, 314-320 Gray’s Inn Road, Summer 2019 London, WC1X 8DP. 03 RAFIKI Director, Wanuri Kahiu This groundbreaking 2018 Kenyan drama film is inspired by Ugandan Monica Arac de Nyeko’s 2007 Caine Prize-winning short story Jambula Tree. It’s the story of friendship and love that grows between two young women, Kena and Ziki, amidst family and political pressures. In March 2019, Samantha Mugatsia won the best actress award for her portrayal of Kena at Africa’s largest film festival, the 2019 FESPACO in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, despite the film being banned in Kenya as a result of its depiction of a gay relationship. When Kenya’s government lifted its ban on the film for one week last September to make Rafiki eligible for Oscars consideration, it shattered box office records in the country. 04 Summer 2019 5 BOOKS TO READ THIS SUMMER New Daughters Prize-winning Nigerian of Africa; an writer Helen Oyeyemi is international back with her latest anthology of writing novel Gingerbread, by women of African a joyful journey into descent the mysterious place (Ed. Margaret Busby) gingerbread holds in is a pioneering work classic children’s stories, by more than 200 as she invites readers women from Africa into a bewitching tale and the African of family, where diaspora. It comes inheritance is a recipe. 20 years after the original landmark Straightened. anthology, Daughters of Africa and clocks in at Stigmatised. ‘Tamed’. over 1000 pages of fiction, essays, poetry, drama, Celebrated. Erased. memoirs and children’s writing exploring Managed. Appropriated. sisterhood, tradition, romance, race and identity. Forever misunderstood. An eclectic array of contributors include Black hair is never ‘just Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Roxane Gay, hair’. Emma Dabiri takes Zadie Smith, Sefi Atta, poet Patience Agbabi, us from pre-colonial and chef Zoe Adjonyoh. Africa, through the Harlem Renaissance, The eagerly awaited Black Power and on to Black Leopard, today’s Natural Hair Red Wolf is the first in a Movement, the Cultural planned fantasy trilogy Appropriation Wars and from Booker winner beyond in her latest Marlon James. The first book Don’t Touch novel of the Dark Star My Hair. trilogy draws on African history and mythology as Cassava Republic Press questor Tracker weaves has so many fantastic his way through an looking titles out this invented map of summer we barely know medieval Africa told which to tell you about, in six sections, travelling from Juba, Ku, Gangatom but we’ll definitely be to Malakal, Kongor, Mitu and the South Kingdom. getting our hands on a They may well become names you know off heart copy of Elnathan John’s as the film options to this ‘African Games of satirical collection Be(com)ing Nigerian: Thrones’ have already been sold. A Guide out next month. Summer 2019 05 LUPITA NYONG’O: POWER BEAUTY INSPIRATION Lupita Nyong’o became a household name after her heart-wrenching performance in Steve McQueen’s rendition of Solomon Northup’s slave memoir, 12 Years a Slave. Since then Lupita has gone from strength to strength, featuring in international beauty campaigns and starring in one of Marvel’s highest grossing films, Black Panther. ot only is Lupita a force to be reckoned with Nin the entertainment industry, but she also prides herself on being able to speak four languages and graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Film and Theatre Studies from Hampshire College. If you ask some of us who watched the first season of Shuga, which introduced us to the formidable force that is Lupita Nyong’o, it is possibly fair to say many of us would not have imagined how she would become an Photograph by s_bukley/Shutterstock.com international icon. 06 Summer 2019 ‘WHEN YOU DON’T SPEAK ABOUT THINGS, THAT’S WHEN THEY GAIN POWER OVER YOU.’ This was Lupita’s response to The Times when she spoke about her unfortunate encounter with Harvey Weinstein. In 2017, Lupita, alongside many actresses, came forward to speak about their personal experiences with former film producer Harvey Weinstein. The actress has since openly spoken about the importance of the #MeToo movement and sexual harassment. Lupita prides herself on using her platform to show women that there is power in using your voice and speaking up against injustice. ‘MY ONE PRAYER TO GOD WAS THAT I WOULD WAKE UP LIGHTER SKINNED.’ During her speech at the Essence Photograph by Featureflash Photo Agency/Shutterstock.com black women in Hollywood luncheon, Lupita touched on the difficulties she faced accepting her complexion. Since then, ‘AS I STARE AT THIS GOLDEN STATUE MAY Lupita has gone on to openly IT REMIND ME AND EVERY LITTLE CHILD speak about colourism and her love THAT NO MATTER WHERE YOU’RE FROM, for her rich skin tone. YOUR DREAMS ARE VALID’. It’s crazy to think that this Kenyan This was the closing line to Lupita’s speech after she had just actress who could not see the won her first Oscar. In 2014, Lupita became the first Kenyan beauty at first, was soon to be to win an Oscar, the first African actress to win Best Actress the first black woman to become in a supporting role, and the first Mexican-born actress to an ambassador for Lancôme. For win an Oscar. many dark skin black women alike, Lupita has broken barriers within Lupita continues to empower children who may not have all the beauty industry. Proving that the opportunities available to them, to dream big. For Lupita, real beauty is about loving yourself this is about more than acting, it’s about using her platform wholeheartedly, and not allowing to inspire young black children to allow themselves to dream societies’ fleeting standards of and be themselves unapologetically. beauty to make you feel less than.