Posing at the 20 foot bamboo gates are the owners of the home Anthony & Bogalech Elmore. Anthony is a native Memphian and 5 time world Karate/Kickboxing champion and writer, producer director of the film "Iron Thunder." Bogalech wearing her traditional White Ethiopian dress is an Ethiopian born native who arrived in Memphis from Ethiopia in March of 2006 and both are recently married. Bogalech family are traditional Ethiopian fabric weavers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia were she was born. They both own Elmore Carpets & African Imports located at 3045 Southern Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee.
Greetings I am African style designer and decorator
Anthony "Amp" Elmore. I have the world's greatest passion
and love to show the world the beauty of African design. In the
Eddie Murphy movie "Coming to America," the world got a positive
view of African designs but this was only a Hollywood version of
African designs and culture. Myself and other designers are
creating fabulous African designs and in this website we show you
our personal home to demonstrate our design ideas. We were unable
to find any book on creating a home in African designs so we took
many trips to various African countries and we created the "Safari
House." Safari is a Swahili word that means journey.
We
have created an acronym for the word Safari that means
Styled African Furnishings Application Renaissance Initiative.”
Please journey a Safari tour of our home located at 1035
Semmes in Memphis, Tennessee.
