Tag Archives: Kenya

Afropolitan Magazines

There has been a pro­lif­er­a­tion of African lifestyle mag­a­zines in recent years. True Love and Arise read­ily come to mind. It is nice to see that they are get­ting noticed out­side the con­ti­nent. New York Times has a story on them. If you can excuse the open­ing and a few other gaffs, the story is

Obama’s face of Africa that is too often overlooked.

The mes­sage, In 1985, around 85,000 peo­ple vis­ited the trop­i­cal coun­try; that num­ber has now sky­rock­eted to around 600,000. In June of this year, the Ghana Tourist Board launched a pro­mo­tional ini­tia­tive with the aim of attract­ing 1 mil­lion annual vis­i­tors by the end of 2012.