Mackeline International Fashion Magazine June 2023

June 2023

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Africa’s Bad Girl

Tiwa Savage’s Stunning Gown at British King’s Coronation

5.24.23

may 2023

issue 2 volume 1

Welcome

Editor’s Note

In our first issue we featured European fabirc. I wanted our readers to see the diversity of African fashion.

Africa is a large continent with climate ranging from scorching hot to desert dry heat. In some countries like Botswana, South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, and Namibia, the temperatures freeze from June to August. Therefore, the traditional ware for many African countries varied. However, historically, our ancestors created clothing by hand-woven nature materials made from cotton, silkworms, bamboo, flax plants, and the hair of certain animals. The dyes used to color materials were made from leaves, tree barks, roots, other plants, and animals. Today, due to European influence, the world at large uses chemical dyes and synthetic materials to create the clothes we wear.

“In 1856, an 18-year-old English chemist, William Henry Perkin, accidentally discovered one of the first synthetic dyes. In search of a treatment for malaria, Perkin experimented with coal tar, a thick, dark liquid by-product of coal-gas production.”

-Smithsonian Libaries.com

A fashionable person is not considered stylish without accessories such as jewelry and shoes. In many African cultures, jewelry was made from wood, tree barks, precious metals like gold, silver, diamond, and natural gemstones. In the early 1900, Europeans introduced Africans to jewelry made from glass and plastic. Today, most African jewelries are made from plastic and other synthetic materials.

I am a huge fan of natural fabric, precious metals, and natural stones. It is my desire to see Africans revert to the production of natural woven fabric, and transforming natural stones and precious metals into beautify work of art. I believe that nature creates these things for our use and since they are a natural part of our planet, by using them we should be able to protect the planet for future generations.

Mackleine Wilson Gibbs

Mackeline International Fashion Magazine And Connect To The World’s Largest Growing Population.

-By Katie Robertson Feb 8, 2023

Promoting Black owned Businesses The Jones Family Values

Smart Learning Center

We chose to highlight HAMS Incorporated this month because of their family values. Mr. Jones is a Biochemist and Trinida Jones is a Family Nurse Practitioner. The family is also the majority owner of a Science Company called Smart Learning Incorporated in Liberia. Smart Learning provides Teacher training and after school programs that focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and Art to students from elementary to high school. Read more about Smart Learning at: https//www.smartlearninglib.com

The Jones. Himien and Trinida Jones are the majority shareholders of HAMS Incorporated Liberia and HAMS North America Incorporated. Himien is currently the COO of HAMS Incorporated Liberia and CEO of HAMS North America Incorporated. Since 2019, HAMS Incorporated Liberia has been contributing to Liberia’s economy. The company currently has six full-time employees, several independent farmers, and other contractual workers.

HAM’S Vodka is the company’s first, and only brand of vodka released on the Liberian Market in 2019. The vodka has three flavors: HAM’S Honey, HAM’S Bitter and HAM’S Original Vodka. HAM’S vodka is sold in all supermarkets, small local shops, and entertainment centers in Monrovia and surrounding cities. All three HAM’S Vodka flavors has been approved to be sold in the United States. HAMS North America Incorporated is currently working on shipping the vodka from Liberia to the USA. It’s goal is for the vodka to be recognized and sold on the International market starting with the city of Philadelphia and other cities that have larger Liberian populations. Read more about HAMS Incorporated at www.hamsvodka.com

HAM’S Vodka

The Mackeline International Fashion Magazine applauded the Jones Family for their contribution to Liberia’s economy. There are many challenges that Liberia and other African Countries are facing in the world today. But education, innovation, creativity, and the entrepreneurial spirit, are tools which will help lift the African Continent to compete equally with the rest of the world.

Beauty Tips

The world we live in today has a whole new meaning for beauty. We have evolved from a world where beauty meant white skin, long hair, thin nose & lips, and non-curvy physique. However, today’s women are receiving surgical implants in their breast, butt, and even in their lips. For many, cosmetic surgery or heavy layers of make-up is what define beauty. However, at Mackeline International Fashion Magazine, we believe that cosmetic surgery and heavy layers of make-up are temporary fix for internal problems. If your beauty does not come from within, the confidence you gain from external fix will be temporaty.

The Elegant Queen of Afrobeats

Nigerian Artist Tiwatope Savage also known as Tiwa Savage, captivated the British audience as she glided on stage in her long flowing emerald gown glided at Buckingham Palace in March. It was at the Coronation of King Charles III.

The gown was created by a well-known Nigerian designer Lanra Da Silva. The forty-three-year-old singer, songwriter, and actress has been called the Queen of Afrobeats. Savage began her music career at age 15 in London where she attended secondary school. In 2012 she moves back to Nigeria to contribute to the Nigerian music industry and has collaborated with many other fellow Nigerian artist. We look forward to many more great performances and stunning appearances by Ms. Savage.

Meet Our Designer

Angie Phebean McGill

CEO of Delrus and Devine’s African Fashion (DD’s African fashion)

“Growing Up, I Have Always Had The Passion To Become A Fashion Designer”

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By

Delrus and Devine’s

African Fashion (DD’s)

Devine’s (DD’s)

DD African Fashinon

behind my machine working on designs.

and here I’m today, enjoying doing it. I love sewing and I feel excited each time I sit

according to him, I was a born fashionista.

That’s how I decided to dive into sewing

inspired by my business partner Cyrus Toby who motivated me to learn how to sew.

Growing up, I was passionate about becoming a fashion designer one day. I was

-CEO DD African Fashion Angie McGiil

DD’s African Fashion Angie P Mcgill

“I’m passionate about fashion”

DD's African Fashion

Fashion

DD’s African Fashion

Every Dress is created to make you feel Beautiful.

Beauty, elegance & Grace

DD African Fashion

Meet Our Cover Model

Ms. Samelia M Gibson

Samelia M Gibson was born to Liberian parents in the Ivory coast during the mid-1990’s. However, she never knew her father. She was reared by her maternal Aunt and Grandmother. The Liberian civil war caused many Liberians to flee the country. Samelia’s mother fled to the United States leaving her daughter behind. Her aunt and grandmother stepped into the parental role for the child. The family relocated to Ghana West Africa where they resided until the passing of her aunt in 2006. When the civil war ended, they moved back to Liberia.

Samelia’s grandmother had other children who also live in the United States, and she depended on her children for financial support-but the support was not regular, and the elder woman struggled to care for Samelia and other family members that were under her care. To make ends meet, Samelia’s grandmother purchased a carton of candles and mosquito cords and began to resell them for a profit. Many homes in Liberia are still lit by candles and lanterns. Also, Liberia has a tropical climate, and it rains for six months out of the year. As a result of the heavy rainfall, the country experiences a high infestation of mosquitos. Therefore, mosquito cords are burned in many homes around the country.

To assist their grandmother with the financial burdens, Samelia and a cousin were forced to sell candles and mosquito cords on the streets. However, Samelia was embarrassed about selling on the streets knowing that her mother lived in the United States of America. Even with their small business, her grandmother continued to struggle to make ends meet. The family eventually evicted from a small shack that they rented. The elder woman managed to raise enough money to build a zinc house where she and her family finally move into. Once again, Samelia refused to live in the zinc house. She felt that living in a zinc house was beneath since her mother lived in the United States.

Samelia remembers being a very unruly child. She ended up joining a street gang called “The Royal boys and Girls Crew.” They run the streets during the day and hang out at clubs and parties at night. The gang members primarily lived in a house that was owned by the parents of two other members. The boys’ parents had also fled Liberia and were living in the United States. With no parental supervision in the house, it became a heaven for many young people who chose the street life.

During her gang life, Samelia would earn money and

liquor by dancing for others. She participated in a beauty pageant and was awarded the first runner’s up position. She later fell in love with a young man and began to spend most of her free time with him. At age 18, she got pregnant, when she revealed the pregnancy news to the young fellow, he to her to abort the child. Samelia had heard many horrifying stories about girls and abortion, and she was frightened. Against the boy’s will, she decided to keep the child. Upon learning about Samelia’s decision to keep the child, the boy turned his back on her. After learning about the child the boy’s parents accepted their granddauther and decided to become her guardian. With her young child securely cared for by her grandparents, Samelia enlisted in high school and graduated in 2015.

In 2016, Samelia met a Liberian Female artist name Faithvonic and began to dance in her music videos and concerts. Dancing for Faithvonic introduced the young woman to a larger audience the gig also paid well. Somehow, dancing was not sufecient for Samelia Modeling had been her dream and people would stop her on the streets to ask if she was a professional model. Modeling was natural for her. At the time, Jbull was the biggest and well-known modeling agencies in Liberia and their models got major contracts. Jbull was also one of the most difficult agencies to get into. Unfortunately for Samelia, she never got into Jbulland at age 26, she was pregnant again. After the passing of her beloved grandmother, she met her biological mother for the first time. She was ecstatic to meet and finally touch the woman who had given birth to her for the first time. With the death of her grandmother and meeting her mother for the first time, Samelia began to reflect on her life. She moved back into the family Zinc house which was built by her grandmother, and she also decided to take up a trade. The twenty 26-year-old registered for cosmetology school where she received a certificate in hair dressing, make-up, and nails. Her family did not believe that she could complete the course due to her past. However, she proves to them and herself that she can make good decisions and she is now on the right track. Semelia and her current boyfriend started a business together where she does make-up and hair for customers and sells beauty products.

Congratulations to Samelia M Gibson for being our June cover model. We are proud of you, and we believe that you will accomplish much more in the future.

A Tribute To The Legendary Trailblazer

Anna Mae Bullock AKA

Tina Turner

November 26, 1939 – May 24, 2023

Abstracted from Wikipedia Free Encyclopedia

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Tina Turner was born Anna Mae Bullock on November 26, 1939, in Brownsville, Tennessee, the youngest daughter of Floyd Richard Bullock and his wife Zelma Priscilla (née Currie).The family lived in the nearby rural unincorporated community of Nutbush, Tennessee, where her father worked as an overseer of the sharecroppers at Poindexter Farm on Highway 180; she later recalled picking cotton with her family at an early age.When she participated in the PBS series African American Lives 2 with Henry Louis Gates Jr., he shared her genealogical DNA test estimates and traced her family timeline. Previously, she believed she had a significant amount of Native American ancestry. Bullock had two older sisters, Evelyn Juanita Currie and Ruby Alline Bullock, a songwriter. She was also the first cousin once removed of bluesman Eugene Bridges. As young children, the three sisters were separated when their parents relocated to Knoxville,

Anna Mae Bullock AKA Tina Turner

Tennessee, to work at a defense facility during World War II. Bullock went to stay with her strict, religious paternal grandparents, Alex and Roxanna Bullock, who were deacon and deaconess at the Woodlawn Missionary Baptist Church. After the war, the sisters reunited with their parents and moved with them to Knoxville. Two years later, the family returned to Nutbush to live in the Flagg Grove community, where Bullock attended Flagg Grove Elementary School from first through eighth grade.

As a young girl, Bullock sang in the church choir at Nutbush’s Spring Hill Baptist Church. When she was 11, her mother Zelma ran off without warning, seeking

freedom from her abusive relation ship with Floyd by relocating to St. Louis in 1950. Two years after her mother left the family, her father married another woman and moved to Detroit. Bullock and her sisters were sent to live with their maternal grandmother, Georgeanna Currie, in Brownsville, Tennessee. She stated in her autobiography I, Tina that she felt her parents did not love her and that she was not wanted. Zelma had planned to leave Floyd but stayed once she became pregnant. Turner recalled: “She was a very young woman who didn’t want another kid.”

As a teenager, Bullock worked as a domestic worker for the Henderson family. She was at the Hender

son house when she was notified that her half-sister Evelyn had died in a car crash alongside her cousins Margaret and Vela Evans. A self-professed tomboy, Bullock joined both the cheerleading squad and the female basketball team at Carver High School in Brownsville, and “socialized every chance she got”. When Bullock was 16, her grandmother died, so she went to live with her mother in St. Louis. She graduated from Sumner High School in 1958. After high school, Bullock worked as a nurse’s aide at Barnes-Jewish Hospital.

Tina Turner began her career with Ike Turner’s band Kings of Rhythm in 1957. Under the name Little Ann, she appeared on her first record, “Boxtop”, in 1958. In 1960, she debuted as Tina Turner with the hit duet single “A Fool in Love”.

The duo Ike & Tina Turner became “one of the most formidable live acts in history.” They released hits such as “It’s Gonna Work Out Fine”, “River Deep – Mountain High”, “Proud Mary”, and “Nutbush City Limits”, before disbanding in 1976.

In the 1980s, Turner launched “one of the greatest comebacks in music history.”

Her 1984 multi-platinum album Private Dancer contained the hit song “What’s Love Got to Do with It”, which won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and became her first and only number-one song on the Billboard Hot 100. Aged 44, she was the oldest female solo artist to top the Hot 100. Her chart success continued with “Better Be Good to Me”, “Private Dancer”, “We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)”, “Typical Male”, “The Best”, “I Don’t Wanna Fight”, and “GoldenEye”. During her Break Every Rule

World Tour in 1988, she set a then-Guinness World Record for the largest paying audience (180,000) for a solo performer.

As of May 2023, Turner had reportedly sold around 100 to 150 million records worldwide, becoming one of the best-selling recording artists of all time. She received 12 Grammy Awards, which include eight competitive awards, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and three Grammy Hall of Fame inductions. She was the first black artist and first woman

to be on the cover of Rolling Stone. Rolling Stone ranked her among the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. Turner has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, with Ike Turner in 1991 and as a solo artist in 2021. She was also a 2005 recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors and Women of the Year award.

The music industry has lost one of its best and the world has lost a great legend. Tina Turner’s music will live in our hearts forever. However, it is her courage, drive, and determination, to triumph against all odds that prompted us to make this tribute to the late Anna Mae Bullock. May your beautiful soul rest in peace.

November 26, 1939 – May 24, 2023

WE HAVE A DRESS FOR EVERY OCATION

At Mackeline International Fashion Magazine, we believe that reading is important and we encourage you to check out our monthly Series. We promise to keep you engaged by keeping you in insuspense till the end. Oh but don’t worry, fashion continues to be our focus. Just keep on reading. Enjoy!

Does The Outfit Make The Person?

EPISODE ONE A

s he dragged the straws of the broom across the sparkling marbled foor, Jabari felt the vibrations of his cell phone which had been placed in the back pocket of his navy-blue janitorial uniform. He quickly switched the broom handle to one hand as he used the other to pull out his phone. At first glance he knew right away that it was an urgent message from one of the hotel guests. The message had come from his manager. “A guest wants room service” the message read. The Golden Palace Hotel had a model that says, “never keep the guest waiting for more than five minutes if possible.” Jabari knew that he had to act quickly.

He closed his phone and swiftly gathered the debris from the broken glass that had shattered across the lobby floor. With the pieces of glass securely wrapped in a special trash bag, he returned the broom and disposes the trash bag. The secondmessage from his manager read, “customer from room 581 orders one red rose, 2 Casava, Sweet potatoes, with yams, fried eggs, and red gravy breakfast tray. The order also included 2 glasses of freshly squeezed orange juice, and a box of condoms. Jabari was not familiar with the word “condom.”

He wanted to make sure the order was completed correctly. He called his manager to clarify the order and asked where he could find the thing called “condoms.” His manager was surprised by the naivety of the nineteen-yearold, six-foot two inch tall, strikingly handsome, dark chocolaty brown skin, university students’ ignorance. She burst into laughter when she heard his question. Feeling embarrassed, and confused, Jabari asked if he had said something wrong. Imani, the hotel manager remembered that Jabari had come from a nearby village and had been sheltered from city life his entire life. Knowing this she tried to control her laughter and apologize to the young man.

“The condoms are kept in the hotel gift shop on the first floor. Just ask the clerk and he will get them for you,” she said. Jabari was already in the hotel lobby and had gone there to clean up after a customer accidentally dropped a glass of water. In the gift shop, the clerk showed him where the condoms were kept and begged it after charging it to room 581.

The elevator stopped on the second floor, where the guest meals were prepared. As the elevato’s doors opened, a soft aroma of herbs and spices coming from the guest kitchen penetrated his nostrils which delighted his tast buds. The kitchen staff had the food waiting in a silver chafing dish placed on a pushcart with a single red rose and beverage. Jabari gently knocked on the door of room 581. His jaw dropped as the door opened quickly. He had recognized the young woman standing on the other side of the door waring one of the hotel’s terrycloth monogramed bathrobes. Her name was Dalilah, she stood five feet tall, and bear footed.

Does The Outfit Make The Person?

“What, what are you doing in this room?” He whispered.

“What are you doing here,” she shouted nervously in reply. “Anyway, I’m glad you found out. I’m tired of pretending to be your girlfriend, you are a poor village trash.” She rolled her eyes and looked away.

“Found out what? Dalilah, why are you saying these things? What’s going on here?”

Just then, a young fellow walked out of the bathroom and headed to the door. He had heard their exchange and wanted to know what was happening. The young man’s name was Cali, he also wore a bathrobe and bedroom slippers.

“Jabari,” said Cali, with a slight grin as he moved closer to the young woman and put his harms around her waist. “I knew you were nothing but a poor working class village boy,” he repeated.

Jabari knew the young man. He was a fellow student. The three

of them attended the university.

“What are you doing in this room with my girl?” Jabari shouty Noticeably angry.

“Your girl? Did you really think someone like her would be with you once she found out how poor you are?”

Jabari rushed toward Cali, but Dalilah raised her hand and shouted at Jabari to stop.

“I am no longer your girlfriend. I pretended to like you because you were nice to me, but you are too poor for me. It’s embarrassing walking around campus with someone like you. You wear old clothes; you don’t even have a car. Most of the students here are from rich families. You are a nobody. Someone told me that your parents are farmer, and your mother is a market woman. They can’t afford to pay your school fees that’s why you work here.”

Her words penetrated his soul, while he fought back the river of tears that had welled up in his eyes. His anger slowly turned to sadness as he turned away to leave the room, Cali threw money at him.

“Don’t forget your tip, use it to

buy yourself some new clothes.” Cali slammed the hotel room door behind Jabari.

At age nineteen Jabari found himself in a strange land with no money and only three friends. His three friends were also his roommates at one of the most prestigious universities in the Kingdom of Nahoura. Nahoura was the capital of Zim a minute country located on the east coast of Africa. Jabari was born in the village of Ticom. He was an heir to the throne of Eze. His family was one of the wealthy families in Africa.

From a very young age his family knew that Jabari would one day rule their kingdom. But, every king had to prove that they were worthy of holding such a prestigious title. Every King had to live outside that kingdom for seven years without any support from the family.

To be continued:

Family Values

Volume 1 Issue 1 May 2023

Fashion is about self-expression and the self has a connection to the family. Growing up in the 1970’s, in Liberia West Africa, we were questioned about our family ties when ever we met a friend’s parents for the first time. The friend’s parents would ask, “who are your parents.” Back then, people judged you by your family ties. My grandmother would say, “you are a Wilson, so hold your head up and stand proud like a Wilson.” We represented our family and every negative or positive image we presented would impact our family’s reputation. This made you think carefully about how you presented yourself in public.

Today, Mackeline International Fashion Magazine still believes in family values. We believe in integrity, honesty, dedication, respect, commitment, and a positive self-image. We expect our team members to adhere to those values. As humans we do act out of character from time to time. However, when this happens, we work quickly to correct our mistakes and strive to improve our actions. As the saying goes, “to Err is human, to forgive divine.”

Our model is, “we strive to improve the lives of those we do business with.” We want to leave the world better than we found it.

It’s our hope to inspire our readers to also strive and achieve their best. Together we can leave our world better than we found it.

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