In alignment with Black History Month, Chace Infinite links up with Akomplice Clothing and Good Wood NYC for exclusive project.
The project aims to promote change and education in the world’s global water and sanitation crisis. The unique collaborative pack will release at 7PM on February 11th, 2011. Limited to 65 pieces total and only available on the Akomplice and Good Wood NYC websites. The collaboration package (retail $69.99) consists of an exclusive track from Chace Infinite which is a flip on D’Angelo’s song “Africa,” a handcrafted box set containing an intricately carved Africa necklace from Good Wood, and an original t-shirt from the fellas at Akomplice. 100% of the package’s profits will be donated to Pump Aid, an organization which has developed a cost-efficient water pump for sustainable water production in impoverished African communities. Akomplice’s Africa t-shirt will also be offered alone later this month. The T-shirt will be available in red, white, green and black. The design features a text-formed image of Africa on its front, enumerating sociopolitical issues affecting the continent; its back is brandished by each collaborator and reads “Donate 2 Africa.” The shirt is more than a fashion statement – it represents courage, cohesion, and change. It is a tangible symbol of this project’s support for Africa.
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Every year millions of people in developing countries die from a lack of clean water, and hundreds of millions more are susceptible to parallel fates. Take a moment to look at the hard facts. Unsafe water and poor sanitation create health, educational, environmental, and social problems which could easily be prevented with the right tools.
In alignment with Black History Month it is not only appropriate but entirely essential to remember our historical roots in Africa and reflect on this month’s core celebrated values – struggle, strength, ability and action. This project honors those who
must endure a daily struggle for survival by taking action and giving them access to clean drinking water, sanitary plumbing, and most importantly greater opportunities in life.
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I have that chain in red.
dang only 65 pieces, i guess that makes it more worth it…but still…
:P I love this , So does My boyfriend. i met him via
~~~H ot’ Bla c k’ w h it e. C” 0- M~~~
a nice place for seeking interr/acial love.which gives you a chance to make your life better and open opportunities for you to meet the attractive sin gles and treat you like a king or Queen. Maybe you wanna check it out or tell your friends.
Does anyone know where the name Africa came from?
This was 2 dope!
@PA its wikipedia…but still:
Afri was the name of several Semitic peoples who dwelt in North Africa near Carthage ( in modern Tunisia). Their name is usually connected with Phoenician afar, “dust”, but a 1981 hypothesis[6] has asserted that it stems from a Berber word ifri or Ifran meaning “cave”, in reference to cave dwellers.[7] Africa or Ifri or Afer[7] is name of Banu Ifran from Algeria and Tripolitania (Berber Tribe of Yafran).[8]
Under Roman rule, Carthage became the capital of Africa Province, which also included the coastal part of modern Libya. The Roman suffix “-ca” denotes “country or land”.[9] The later Muslim kingdom of Ifriqiya, modern-day Tunisia, also preserved a form of the name.
Other etymological hypotheses that have been postulated for the ancient name “Africa”:
the 1st century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus (Ant. 1.15) asserted that it was named for Epher, grandson of Abraham according to Gen. 25:4, whose descendants, he claimed, had invaded Libya.
Latin word aprica (“sunny”) mentioned by Isidore of Seville in Etymologiae XIV.5.2.
the Greek word aphrike (Αφρική), meaning “without cold.” This was proposed by historian Leo Africanus (1488–1554), who suggested the Greek word phrike (φρίκη, meaning “cold and horror”), combined with the privative prefix “a-”, thus indicating a land free of cold and horror.
Massey, in 1881, derived an etymology from the Egyptian af-rui-ka, “to turn toward the opening of the Ka.” The Ka is the energetic double of every person and “opening of the Ka” refers to a womb or birthplace. Africa would be, for the Egyptians, “the birthplace.”[10]
yet another hypothesis was proposed by Michèle Fruyt in Revue de Philologie 50, 1976: 221–238, linking the Latin word with africus ‘south wind’, which would be of Umbrian origin and mean originally ‘rainy wind’.
The Irish female name Aifric is sometimes anglicised as Africa, but the given name is unrelated to the geonym.
Just ordered some stuff from to if only I waited a few days
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bouta cop that africa chain
Mickey Facts version is dope aswell!
@KEEJEE
So Africa is a name that comes from Europeons and Arabians? But then what was it called by africans?
man this track is reall dope. imma buy that pack too