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HAWKING IN THE MARKET--SAMINAKA COMMERCIAL NEWS

***Sultan Oliha Yiwama has returned from Nigeria, and has opened his office on Saminaka. It has dual access--directly from the beachside, beside the new shrine, or through the Iyawo store. Sultan Oliha has had extensive real life training and initiations in the U.S. and in Nigeria, and is a qualified diviner and priest in both Yoruba and Benin Kingdom traditions. See him for all your needs, religious and personal!

***VENDORS! CALLING ALL AFRICAN MERCHANTS! Saminaka will be holding SL’s first African Festival from the evening of Oct. 1 through Oct. 4. Its many events will include appearances by masqueraders, stiltwalkers and acrobats, as well as a decorated canoe regatta, a durbar with a display of finely attired horses, an African fashion conest, two (or three!) djed parties, a live musical performance, cultural lectures, readings, displays about Nupe culture, the horse in Africa, and Nigerian plants, a sim-wide treasure hunt, the launching of Ananse, an SL group devoted to African and Diaspora scholarship and more! During our last treasure hunt, our numbers were in the thousands. And what’s a festival without a special festival market? The big boat is coming down, and in its place we will have festival stalls, ready for stocking with African merchandise. Do you sell African clothes? Jewelry? Drums? Hair? Skins? Come and take a booth and sit back for a willing audience of strollers! Our prices are low because we really want your participation to add to the atmosphere: 125L a day for 25 prims worth of display, or 300L for the three and a half day period. Contact Tamsin Barzane for details; there are only a few spots left

***Our new store IYAWO (formerly Adire) has opened! Iyawo will specialize in orisha attire, art, and ritual products. Brazilian-style dress for Oshun and orisha followers are already out, with Yemanja and Oya to be added within days--and many more to come. The carved wooden panels and paintings of Carybe, showing orishas and initiates, are up, as are selected other art works. A sculpted Eshu/Eleggua awaits your threshold! More to come. Visit our Olokun shrine as well, and be on the lookout for expansion in this area.

***Be on the lookout for a new superstore on Saminaka, the cacao main store! Some of Tamsin's brands will be folded into this store, but that doesn't mean her off-sim stores will vanish. Kiko Life's cacao store will remain the jewel box it is, and will only carry the latest cacao collection, but Tropicality will change directions somewhat, becoming what its name implies--THE spot of African-inspired beachwear! Most of Pangolin Dreams' African art works will move into Seven Cowries, but Pangolin Dreams will continue to carry some art and artifacts while changing direction somewhat. As for the promised cacao superstore....wait and see! Its exterior will be a spectacular piece of Hausa architecture, filled with products you'll be eager to stock up on! Keep looking here for the grand opening date!

This casual outfit has a sexy bra top with an asymmetrical short flexiskirt made from Yoruba cloth. This aso oke, a heavy cotton woven by men, is made in narrow strips that are sewn side-by-side to make wider textiles. Indigo is a favorite, locally-made dye, and is used here in various shades.

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This lovely indigo wax print dress comes with two skirts: one is a smooth, chic, but still respectable short skirt, the other a two tier midi length. The longer version has a prim sash that's resizable by just clicking! And what could be nicer? Matching indigo wax print strappy high heels!!! Just the outfit to stroll through Abidjan or Porto Novo, or pack up for your trip to Paris! Come see it at cacao...couture for the chocolate lands.

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cacao....couture from the chocolate lands offers this exclusive dress--only ten will be sold, so you needn't worry about seeing it everywhere. It has your choice of two flexiskirts, one in full ballgown length, the other a short sheer version. The bodice, sash and shoes are made from Yoruba aso oke cloth, hand dyed and woven. Prim elements make this attire distinctive, from its regal stand up color to the bow on its sash. It comes with matching high heels, also with a prim bow, and jewelry--earrings, bangles and armlets. Rock your world!



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HAWKING IN THE MARKET--SAMINAKA COMMERCIAL NEWS

***cacao...couture from the chocolate lands, has released its men's line, chock full of prim details and African elements, but in contemporary styles. Come see at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Kiko%20Life/234/114/1506

***On Thursday, some clothing goes on sale at Cinnamon Brigade AND Tropicality! Some current items will be reworked, and new traditional attire will be introduced, all taking place over the next two weeks.

***A small delay, but keep an eye open--soon a new publication at at Slate, Scroll & Stick--Olaudah Equiano's brief history. This remarkable Igbo man traveled much of the globe after being enslaved as a child and buying his own freedom--and his life as writer, speaker and abolitionist was a runaway success in the late 18th c.

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Detailed bodice with interesting horizontal and vertical strapped back, its asymmetrical flexiskirt is made from Yoruba asooke, handwoven cotton cloth dyed with indigo. Get it at cacao:

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