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The Trends Defining African Fashion in 2026
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Best of Music 2025
In July 2024, a Nigerian comedian named Brain Jotter posted a dance video to a song released in 1983. Within
Best of Art 2025
For decades, African art occupied a provisional space in global institutions—collected but rarely centered, exhibited but seldom historicized on its own
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Nuits Balnéaires Awarded Second Latitudes Grant from Fondation d’entreprise Hermès
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Kwetu Kwanza 2025 drew over 4,000 visitors on Saturday, November 22, with thousands more
Detty December’s Economic Power and Growing Divide
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