North African Design and Its Geographies

Above: ALTIN, Our AlUla Trilogy, Wadi. Photograph © Lorenzo Arrigoni The Institut du monde arabe has named twenty-six finalists for the fourth edition of its Design Award, across four juried categories, showing at the IMA from 10 to 20 September with the ceremony held the evening before. A Public Prize, new this year, runs across […]
What Roland-Garros Inherited from Central Africa

Whenever I tell people I was born and raised in Cameroon, the first thing they bring up is the football. The Indomitable Lions. Roger Milla dancing at the corner flag in 1990. Samuel Eto’o at Barcelona, scoring goals against teams whose names we learned to pronounce just for him. The 1990 World Cup quarter-final against […]
The Women Who Built the Revolution

To understand what accelerating action on gender equality actually looks like, what it costs, what
We Ski Too on the African Continent

Most people picture Africa and think: heat. Endless sun, dust, maybe a safari jeep kicking up red dirt. Snow?