WHEN people mention African fashion, more often than not. they will only talk about African cloth prints. Recently. however, an African online fashion brand called Babatunde has emerged in Africa. the United States an...WHEN people mention African fashion, more often than not. they will only talk about African cloth prints. Recently. however, an African online fashion brand called Babatunde has emerged in Africa. the United States and Europe. which seeks to broaden this narrow stereotype. Babatunde uses traditional African print fabrics favored by black women to make dresses and produce items such as Western-style caps, hats and clutch bags.展开更多
AGNES NANDAWULA sips on a soft drink at a Kampala restaurant and watches her two-year-old daushter dressed in a brishtly colored outfit playing nearby. ＂I bought this kids wear from a shop at Wande geya on the outski...AGNES NANDAWULA sips on a soft drink at a Kampala restaurant and watches her two-year-old daushter dressed in a brishtly colored outfit playing nearby. ＂I bought this kids wear from a shop at Wande geya on the outskirts of Kampala two weeks aso. I like this fashion style as it is simple but very beautiful. The cloth is pure cotton and comfortable for my kid.＂ the 30-year-old mother told ChinAfrica.展开更多
Continent shows its stars and future potential in Beijing For a continent that hits the headlines most often for wars and famine, the Olympics offered Africa a chance to make the news for more positive reasons, and it...Continent shows its stars and future potential in Beijing For a continent that hits the headlines most often for wars and famine, the Olympics offered Africa a chance to make the news for more positive reasons, and its athletes obliged with a host of outstanding achievements.展开更多
The current and dominant theory about the origin of modern humans is the out-of-Africa hypothesis, which asserts that populations of Homo sapiens left Africa 100,000 years ago and replaced indigenous populations of hu...The current and dominant theory about the origin of modern humans is the out-of-Africa hypothesis, which asserts that populations of Homo sapiens left Africa 100,000 years ago and replaced indigenous populations of humans in Eurasia. Many scholars equated the out-of-Africa dispersal of humans with paleoenvironmental changes. However, until now, few have paid special attention to the faunal data and whether or not faunal patterns are supportive of the popular theory. Recent comparative study of the Chinese fauna shows that the communication of faunas between Africa and East Asia could have occurred during the Neogene, but it was very limited during the Pleistocene. In the Chinese Quaternary fauna, only 16% of the genera are also present in the sub-Saharan African fauna. There is also no element among the dominant taxa of the Chinese Quaternary fauna which can be related to the African fauna. There is no reliable proof for the existence of Hippopotamus and Giraffa, as well as Panthera leo, during the Quaternary in China. Two controversial taxa are Acinonyx and Crocuta, about which there is still argument concerning their species identification in Eurasia. It is possible that both of the genera have co-specific taxa in Africa and Eurasia. Although the two genera are confined to Africa today, they did have a long evolutionary history in China. For the Out of Africa hypothesis for Homo sapiens, the implications of the limited faunal interchanges between China and Africa are not completely clear yet.展开更多
文摘WHEN people mention African fashion, more often than not. they will only talk about African cloth prints. Recently. however, an African online fashion brand called Babatunde has emerged in Africa. the United States and Europe. which seeks to broaden this narrow stereotype. Babatunde uses traditional African print fabrics favored by black women to make dresses and produce items such as Western-style caps, hats and clutch bags.
文摘AGNES NANDAWULA sips on a soft drink at a Kampala restaurant and watches her two-year-old daushter dressed in a brishtly colored outfit playing nearby. ＂I bought this kids wear from a shop at Wande geya on the outskirts of Kampala two weeks aso. I like this fashion style as it is simple but very beautiful. The cloth is pure cotton and comfortable for my kid.＂ the 30-year-old mother told ChinAfrica.
文摘Continent shows its stars and future potential in Beijing For a continent that hits the headlines most often for wars and famine, the Olympics offered Africa a chance to make the news for more positive reasons, and its athletes obliged with a host of outstanding achievements.
基金supported by the International Cooperation Program of MST of China(2009DFB20580)the Major Basic Research Project of MST of China(Grant No: 2006CB806400)+1 种基金Special Basic Research Project(Grant No:2007FY110200)of MST of Chinathe IVPP Project(Grant No:KA209508)
文摘The current and dominant theory about the origin of modern humans is the out-of-Africa hypothesis, which asserts that populations of Homo sapiens left Africa 100,000 years ago and replaced indigenous populations of humans in Eurasia. Many scholars equated the out-of-Africa dispersal of humans with paleoenvironmental changes. However, until now, few have paid special attention to the faunal data and whether or not faunal patterns are supportive of the popular theory. Recent comparative study of the Chinese fauna shows that the communication of faunas between Africa and East Asia could have occurred during the Neogene, but it was very limited during the Pleistocene. In the Chinese Quaternary fauna, only 16% of the genera are also present in the sub-Saharan African fauna. There is also no element among the dominant taxa of the Chinese Quaternary fauna which can be related to the African fauna. There is no reliable proof for the existence of Hippopotamus and Giraffa, as well as Panthera leo, during the Quaternary in China. Two controversial taxa are Acinonyx and Crocuta, about which there is still argument concerning their species identification in Eurasia. It is possible that both of the genera have co-specific taxa in Africa and Eurasia. Although the two genera are confined to Africa today, they did have a long evolutionary history in China. For the Out of Africa hypothesis for Homo sapiens, the implications of the limited faunal interchanges between China and Africa are not completely clear yet.
