Ohlanna Bu Zikora Is the Nigerian Designer Inspired by the 1930s
Zikora Ikebuaku knows how to credit their predecessors. There’s a level of surety and admiration
Kusi Kubi on PALMWINE IceCREAM SS26, Craft, and His Mother’s Wardrobe
PALMWINE IceCREAM, the Ghana–London brand led by designer Kusi Kubi, released its SS26 campaign this week
Ntufi ya Ntaba, Aton Tsiba on Ritual, Touch, and a First Film
Aton Tsiba is a fashion designer by trade, but Ntufi ya Ntaba marks his debut as a filmmaker. The two facts
Ghana’s Free The Youth Makes History with Air Jordan Collaboration
Free The Youth started the way most youth movements do: kids with cameras, posting fits online.
The Woman Behind Dakar Fashion Week
The Woman Behind Dakar Fashion Week Adama Paris built Africa’s longest-running fashion week. Then she put it on the ocean. Adama Amanda Ndiaye, Founder of Dakar Fashion Week. Photography by Mario Epanya There are cities that host fashion weeks, and there are cities that shape them. Dakar belongs to the second kind. The most recent […]
In Justyna Obasi’s “Ritual”, Boys Learn to Tend to Themselves
Berlin-based, Polish-Nigerian director Justyna Obasi has spent the last decade making images that feel like
Loza Maléombho and the Language of African Cosmology
The Ivorian fashion scene is vibrant and rapidly evolving, blending traditional craftsmanship with contemporary design and gaining recognition on the global stage. Among the designers
How Cynthia Erivo Built a Wicked Fashion Narrative Across Two Global Press Tours
Cynthia Erivo moves through each press tour with the same narrative sensibility and sense of story that echoes through the world of Wicked,
Building Chuks Collins: Choosing His Own Terms in Fashion
Chuks Collins builds clothes that refuse single definitions. His work fuses African-inspired motifs with Western tailoring,
Nyambo Masa Mara on Border Politics, Sustainability, and Building Masa Mara
Nyambo Masa Mara on Border Politics, Sustainability, and Building Masa Mara Portrait of Nyambo Masa Mara, Founder of the brand Masa Mara. Nyambo Masa Mara’s two freeform dreadlocks hang down his back, thick and heavy. He estimates they weigh about 15 kilograms total. “People always ask if they’re heavy,” he says. “Of course they are. […]