Nuits Balnéaires Awarded Second Latitudes Grant from Fondation d’entreprise Hermès
Ivorian artist Nuits Balnéaires has been named the 2025 laureate of Latitudes, an international photography programme from
Kwetu Kwanza 2025: Over 4,000 Gather in Uganda for Circular Fashion at Nyege Nyege
Kwetu Kwanza 2025 drew over 4,000 visitors on Saturday, November 22, with thousands more
Detty December’s Economic Power and Growing Divide
Detty December has returned, and across West Africa, cities like Lagos and Accra are preparing
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
Trend Report: Dakar Fashion Week 2025
Dakar Fashion Week’s 24th edition ran three days across three venues
Authored From Within: MoMA’s Ideas of Africa
MoMA’s exhibition Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination revisits the golden age of African studio photography—roughly the 1950s through 1970s—through work shaped by the questions raised in V. Y. Mudimbe’s The Idea of Africa. Where Mudimbe exposed “Africa” as a Western epistemological construction built to maintain colonial power, the photographers here offered something radically […]
“Who Is MOWAA Really For?”: A Critical Commentary on a Museum Caught Between Promise and Power
The Museum of West African Art (MOWAA), founded in 2020 and envisioned as one of the most ambitious
Holiday Gifting and Wear: Kwasi Paul
Kwasi Paul is named for the space between two places. Samuel Boakye,
Dakar Fashion Week 2025 Day 3: The Runway Moved to the Atlantic
Dakar Fashion Week closed on the Atlantic. For its final day, the runway moved
The Revival Is Turning Kantamanto’s Crisis Into a Climate Blueprint
At COP30 in Belém, world leaders pledged to triple adaptation finance for the Global South by 2035.