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The Back of the Field
Across Buea, Lagos, Nairobi and Cairo, a running boom is exposing the hidden economics of belonging. Who pays to keep a community free, who profits when it grows, and why not one of six global brands would say what any of it is worth.
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The African creative economy, tracked.
A quarterly briefing on the business beneath the culture: fashion, art, sport, and the AI and platforms moving the value.
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Guzangs Presents
The Season
- 10 to 20 September 2026Institut du monde arabe Design Award, Paris
- 28 October to 1 November 2026Lagos Fashion Week, Lagos
- 19 November to 19 December 2026Dakar Biennale (Dak’Art), Dakar
The Latest
All StoriesNew work, fresh perspectives, and what we're following this week.
From The Eye
What pictures know.
Films, photographs, and projects from our visual archive.
Features
Reported essays and long reads on African fashion, art, and design.
Culture, Art & Design
Inheritance and invention across the continent: the makers, ideas, and objects shaping how Africa looks, builds, and gathers.
A Recurring Column
If This. Then That.
An object from the canon, paired with the African designer carrying it forward.
Material Literacy
Read the cloth.
Textiles, techniques, and material systems that built African dress.
Fashion
Fashion.
Designers, collections, and the systems behind them.
Guzangs Presents
Fashion Weeks.
On the ground in Lagos and Dakar.
Runway
Videos
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The Eye
What pictures know.
Image-making by Africans, for the record.