Ramadan Mubarak!

Inside: Afro Queer Podcast in Z-Brand Spotlight

🧘‍♀️ Zen Note

We are in the holy month of Ramadan, and I am here for the minimalist aesthetics on Tiktok and the Gen Zs taking it to another level.

Ramadan is a time for spiritual reflection and charitable acts. Muslims around the world will be observing a month of fasting, as a way to increase their faith. To Muslims in our community, may this period bring you and your loves peace, joy, and blessings. Ramadan Mubarak!

- Edisana Stephen, Newsletter Editor

🥳 Z Brand Spotlight

AFROQUEER PODCAST is a podcast telling the stories of queer Africans from across the continent and the diaspora. Produced by AQ Studios, the podcast celebrates queer love and explores the laws affecting queer lives, across topics on censorship, family and sex. Alongside sharing bitter tales of being queer and African, the podcast also spotlights individuals shifting the landscape of African queerness.

✍️ New on Kenga

🔥 Hot Topics

  • 'The Boyfriend Effect' is the new trend in relationship TikTok. (via Yahoo)

  • The era of ugly fashion and why Gen Zers are obsessed with crocs. (via The Conversation)

  • Girls Guides are experiencing 'woke' and modern transformations to become more inclusive. (via Express)

  • Hotels are rethinking strategies to attract Gen Z travellers. (via Skift)

  • HR is adapting recruiting practices for the younger workforce. (via CNBC)

  • Despite the TikTok ban on US campuses, some colleges still use it to reach prospective students. (via Insider Higher Ed)

  • US Gen Z voters warn Joe Biden of the consequences of banning TikTok. (via NBC News)

  • A Holocaust survivor is making TikTok videos to educate young people. (via AP News)

💡 Z-Lang

VIBE CHECK - the term is a social lingo to rate or assess someone's environment based on emotional resonance.

😮‍💨 Weekenda

  • Thursday Lates with DatArtGod, an art exhibition by Kukun x Trybe Africa, Osu, Accra

Discover a surreal visual experience in identity, culture, spirituality, and emotion.

  •  The Faces I Can't Forget, an event featuring Theophilus Tetteh at The Mix Design Hub, Osu

Explore the parts of the artist's past that have most influenced his present practice in a vibrant figurative exhibition.

  • Book 65 1st anniversary edition launch and artist' talk, an event with Jean Quarcoopome and The Mix Design Hub

Catch up with Kenga's co-founder and art director among other influential creatives, and explore his engrossing photobook.

  • Threaded Tribes sales and sip pop-up, an event at Elle Lokko, Osu

Shop, jam, sip and mingle at the edgy brand's pop-up.

  • The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, a book by Deesha Philyaw

Revel in this debut short story collection of secret lust, forbidden affairs and the complexities of female sexuality.

  • SWARM, an Amazon Prime series

Get hooked on this psychological trailer about the dark extreme of being a stan.

  • The Consultant, an Amazon Prime series

Be enthralled by this unsettling workplace thriller that follows a sinister new boss and his employees

  • Vivarium, a film

The film makes a surreal metaphor of mundane suburban life and will make you feel like you're looking into a fish tank

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