Nine ongoing investigations into how African fashion, art, design and culture get made, named and seen.
Each Guzangs series is a long-form lens. Some follow people. Some follow materials. Some follow the city itself. Read by series, or by the question it asks.
Profiles of the designers, artists, editors, curators and founders shaping African and diasporic culture.
Fashion weeks, art fairs and biennales. What is happening, where, and why it matters.
How the African creative economy gets made: materials, labour, production, distribution.
How a place lives, moves and signals, read through fashion, art, design and street culture.
The materials, techniques and practices shaping African textile, craft and design traditions.
The economics, ethics and second readings of the runway moment, once the lights come down.
Structural analysis. Causal claims. The connections between one cultural moment and the next.
Trade, IP, tariffs and the institutional architecture of African fashion, art and design.
A coming Guzangs map of the African and diasporic creative world. In development.
