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The Brutal History of African Architecture
Nairobi's KICC remains a stage for public life, while Abidjan's La Pyramide has stood largely empty for decades. Michelle Nkirote examines what their diverging afterlives reveal about independence, national ambition and the politics of preservation.
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The Season
- 15 September 2026 to 7 February 2027Unsteady Realms, Norval Foundation, Cape Town
- 15 to 18 October 20261-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London, London
- 18 to 25 October 2026Design Week Lagos, Lagos
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.