100 followers!

Today, I’m celebrating reaching 100 Instagram followers!! I know that when life gets busy, it’s easy to make excuses about why you shouldn’t work on the things you are passionate about just because they don’t have tangible benefits. BUT that probably means you actually need it more than ever. Life can get super heavy when you’re not working on those things that bring you extra happiness.

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For the Love of Reds and Yellows

A lot has been happening on the Instagram page lately. Here are four of the outfits I posted. And if you’re not already following along on Instagram, drop everything, go to instagram.com/nativehut and hit that “follow” button

Feast your eyes:

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Out and About: Guys in Natives

Y’all, I swear, it’s a hustle to find African men in natives on social media. Everywhere you turn, this ankara page or that African fashion page is destroying your life with approximately 10,000 pictures of women rocking their trads daily. But where are the men? Maybe I don’t know the proper search terms to enter but biko, is Uti Nwachukwu the only person you people know? [1]

Anyway, I would like to add to the noise [2] and post pics of a couple of dudes in their native wear.

Henry & Ibrahim in Kaftans

I accosted my coworker, Henry, last week or so.

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Out and About: A Study in Pink

(Yes, I’m a Sherlock fan)

Our first “Out and About” post y’all! So exciting : )

As I drift through Abuja, I always get distracted by people’s sense of style. Usually, I stop them since they have to know, “I’m obsessed with your dress.” But because that level of human intensity wasn’t challenging enough for me, I decided to turn it up a notch.

Hello man who has never met me before in his entire life. Would you mind standing still against this wall while I take a picture of your shirt?

You know, people are surprisingly receptive to being accosted for pictures of their outfits. Maybe it’s because I said, “Please.” [1]

 

Amuta in Pink Ankara

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