Why Some Young Africans Can’t Speak Their Mother Tongues
School punishment, family expectations and ridicule: young Africans explain what came between them and their mother tongues.
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The Guzangs Atlas · Edition one
Dakar
A guide to the city’s studios, ateliers and galleries, with places to eat, stay and spend the evening.
The Ritual of Attaya · Photography by Alexander Gandaho
Presenting Cultural Partner · Terrou-Bi
Features
Ideas, ownership and the people shaping African creative culture.
The Ceiling Was Always a Dress
Karim Adduchi and master woodworkers in Amman turned the geometry of the Alhambra's Comares ceiling into a dress of inlaid wood, a shape already visible in an archive drawing of the ceiling laid flat.
Africa’s Creative Work Is Training AI. Who Makes the Terms Count?
THE SOVEREIGN STACK · SEASON ONE FINALE Over six instalments, The Sovereign Stack followed African creative work into the AI systems now being built on top of it: how it is seen, paid for, found, bought, recorded and governed. The season closes on the question beneath every one of them: who can make those systems come and ask, and who will still be there to answer?
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 Guzangs Report
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.
Guzangs Presents
The Season
- 14 November to 6 December 2026Lagos Biennial
- 19 November to 19 December 2026Dakar Biennale (Dak’Art)
- 1 to 6 December 2026Dakar Fashion Week
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Culture, Art & Design
Inheritance and invention across the continent: the makers, ideas, and objects shaping how Africa looks, builds, and gathers.
