Best of Culture 2025

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2025 was the year African culture stopped explaining itself. The shift was visible

Africa Fashion Arrives in Montreal: A Global Conversation Continues

Two women stand before the wall reading Afrique / Africa Mode Fashion at the McCord Stewart Museum opening night. One wears a vivid cobalt blue draped ensemble with gold accessories, the other in an elegant black dress with statement earrings and a glittered handbag, capturing the evening’s blend of style and celebration.

Walking into Africa Fashion in Montreal feels like arriving at the latest stop in a global conversation — one that began in London, traveled through Brooklyn, staged in Melbourne, and now lands here to shed new light on diasporic and local voices. Originally mounted at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London from July 2, […]

WORN OUT — Part III: Return to Sender

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How African Designers Are Reclaiming Waste and Rewriting Fashion’s Future The bales arrive as they always have — compressed, labeled, shipped across oceans like cargo without conscience. They still overwhelm ports and markets, a visible symptom of a system that hasn’t stopped. But something has shifted in how they’re received. Across Accra, Cairo, Dakar, workshops […]

Waste Not, Wear More: African Designers and Artists Upcycle the Future

Waste Not, Wear More: African Designers and Artists Upcycle the Future From Dakar

As the global fashion industry reckons with its massive environmental impact, Africa is quietly leading a creative revolution — one where waste is not discarded but reborn. On this World Environment Day, we turn the spotlight to a growing community of African designers and artists transforming textile scraps, plastic, and secondhand clothing into vibrant works […]