Cut From the Same Cloth
At Harvard, Omo Naija x Wahala Boys brings a Nigerian tradition of matching dress to the stage.
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Ideas, ownership and the people shaping African creative culture.
Dede Arisekola Is Building a World of Her Own
The Irish-Nigerian designer explores Afrotopia through Holy One, her menswear label, which reworks African formalwear beyond European dress codes and imagines new futures shaped by African culture, history and lived experience.
How Brands Sell Belonging
From Kai Collective’s early-morning pop-ups to Onalaja’s runway, the continent’s labels have learned that the feeling of being let in can sell a dress long before the fabric does.
The Protocol Is the Border
The Sovereign Stack · Part Six Fifty-nine people lent their voices to teach a machine Dholuo, on the condition that no one clone them. Nothing shows whether that holds once the recordings leave the platform.
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What it takes to keep the value.
This quarter: the run clubs, factories and funding deals behind African creative work, and whether the money actually reaches the people making it.
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The Season
- 28 October to 1 November 2026Lagos Fashion Week
- 5 to 8 November 2026ART X Lagos
- 7 to 8 November 2026GTCO Fashion Weekend, Lagos
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