Who says you cannot be creative….if only we can use just 5% of our brain daily.

Founder Dolapo Shobanjo says she started My Asho -- taken from the Yoruba word "aso" which means cloth -- when she realized that African designers were not getting the promotion they deserved.
"I contacted the top designers, I spoke to them and asked them about their struggle and how difficult it is for them," says Shobanjo. "That's really how it got started, so to create that credible infrastructure is to show the global demand for the products and that will kick start the productions."

With clients in more than 50 countries, Shobanjo's goal is to create a sustainable business model for My Asho. At the same time, she also wants her company to help her continent by supporting local African communities where the clothes are manufactured.

As a result, Shobanjo's prioritized working with ethical brands that show a commitment to fair labor practices and create opportunities for their communities.
"I'm supporting Africa, helping it grow and creating jobs,I think it is better to create from the start ethical principles and work with designers who pay their tailors well, who are investing in helping their communities grow and then once you grow as a business then you know that they will also grow as well."

Today, My Asho stocks a variety of womenswear, children's clothes and accessories from more than 30 African designers. Shobanjo says she is very careful when it comes to selecting new designers, making sure they have high professional standards.

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We are what we want to be………..

Just like most Rappers he started off really rough but hey! he decided to use just 5% of his brain…from being a drug dealer to an icon in the entertainment industry and now a business mogul.

An American rapper whose albums Get Rich or Die Tryin' and The Massacre have both achieved multi-platinum status. 50 cent (born Curtis James Jackson, 6.7.1975) was a drug dealer at the age of 12,was arrested in 1994 for cocaine to an undercover police officer. He was sentenced to three to nine years in prison but served only six months in an incarceration boot camp. In 2000 when he had quit dealing with drugs to pursue a music career

Talk about 360 degree turn,50 cent now has a new energy drink Street King. 50 Cent has linked the product to the United Nations World Food Program, promising to donate one meal for every bottle sold. It is an ambitious goal, but then Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson is an ambitious man..

Jackson describes it as an evolution. "It has been a gradual process. At this point I need to show growth and do different things and be a strong impression on people's life without it relating to music. Music was the platform for me to get enough attention to matter. Now I can do things that are really effective."

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What would u be doing? where would u be?on d 11th hr of 11th day 11th mth of d 11th yr of d millennium,ds date will not occur again till d next 100yrs

Today, November 11, 2011 or 11/11/11, marks the second to last repetitive date of its kind this century—12/12/2012 will be the last—and around the world weddings, births, the Egyptian pyramids and even corduroy are being influenced by the supposed cosmic significance attached to this date.
The date, which happens to be Veterans Day in the U.S. and Remembrance Day in Commonwealth countries, is a perfect palindrome and occurs only once a century.
Couples all over the world are scrambling to get married on this supposedly auspicious date. In Las Vegas, the Clark County clerk’s office has already received 3,500 applications for marriages on November 11; usually there are only 1,000 applications per month, the International Business Times reported.
Chapel of the Flowers is holding 80 weddings, around triple their daily average of around 20 to 30 couples, Aimee Stephens, marketing director, told CNN.
“We have been prepared for this,” Stephens said. “People seem to love these numeric occurrences.”

Similarly in Singapore, 574 couples are set to tie the knot, but wedding planners,

In China, November 11 has been celebrated each year as an unofficial “Singles’ Day” since it was first created by a group of college students in Nanjing in the 1990s. The ones in the date represent “unattached sticks,” a Chinese term for single people.
One mall in northeastern China’s Shenyang, Liaoning province has asked employees to dress up in bear costumes and beat couples showing signs of affection with inflatable hammers, according to China Daily.
Shanghai’s civil affairs authority had received more than 3,500 applications for registering marriages today, and in Nanjing there over 3,000 couples registering their marriages, more than 10 times the normal amount, according to Xinhua.
In India, in addition to a surge of weddings, many couples are inducing or delaying labor in hopes of having their child born on 11/11/11.

“It is an attractive date, and if it is not unsafe to advance or postpone by a day or two, most couples would rather have their baby on this day. We are doing three such cases," Dr. Preety Agarwal, senior gynecologist at Apollo Hospital in New Delhi, told the Times of India.

Advertisers are also taking advantage of the “ones” in a century palindrome date for promotional purposes. Verizon Wireless will release the highly anticipated Motorola Droid Razr today at exactly 11:11am. Chinese Internet retail giant Taobao is offering huge discounts on its website in celebration of Singles’ Day. A horror movie aptly called 11.11.11 is being released today in the United States.

The Corduroy Appreciation Club is not only holding celebrations all over the United States, but has also been celebrating the 10 days leading up to 11/11/11, for a total of 11 days of celebration. According to their website, “the number 11, being a figure which closely resembles Corduroy, is extremely important to the CAC’s iconography.

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Billy Crystal Steps in to Host Oscars 2012

The 63 year old comedian Billy Crystal is replacing Eddie Murphy as host of the 2012 Academy Awards,this will be Billy's ninth time hosting the Oscars.
He made a little gesture with it ",” Crystal said in a statement. “I am thrilled to be back there. Actually, I am doing this so that the young woman in my pharmacy will stop asking me my name when I pick up my perscriptions.”


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Great expectations of millions of soccer-loving Nigerians, as all eyes are on Stephen Keshi on the contractual agreement with the NFA.

He was appointed on the 04/11/11 as new Super Eagles coach. The association had said Keshi would be expected to ensure the team's qualification for the 2013 African Nations Cup finals scheduled for South Africa, also be expected to not only qualify the team for the 2014 FIFA World Cup finals in Brazil but also lead it to the quarter-finals stage at least.

Samson Siasia was relieved of his job due to his inability to lead the Super Eagles to qualification for the 2012 African Cup of Nations finals in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.

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