If This. Then That: The Holiday Edit
From Kenyan brass jewellery to furniture by Jomo Tariku and Paul Ledron, six pairings from our series for the wardrobe and the home.
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Dakar
A guide to the city’s studios, ateliers and galleries, with places to eat, stay and spend the evening.
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Ideas, ownership and the people shaping African creative culture.
What Demas Nwoko means by modern
In Demas Nwoko’s house in Idumuje-Ugboko, his daughter Bofu says, rain enters at the centre and hot air has a way out. She grew up there, and now wants the thinking behind his buildings taught to young designers.
Making it in Lagos
Titi Ogufere wants Nigerian designers to win international orders and fulfil them at home. She has met designers who make beautiful furniture but cannot produce a hundred pieces when asked.
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.
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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