If This Then That: Sculpture — John Chamberlain → Gonçalo Mabunda

If you understand why John Chamberlain’s crushed cars matter, you’ll recognize what Gonçalo Mabunda built from the weapons of a war. IF YOU LIKE JOHN CHAMBERLAIN John Chamberlain transformed crushed automobiles into sculpture, showing that industrial scrap could carry the same expressive force as bronze or marble. Rather than erase the material’s past, he preserved […]
Maputo’s Modernist Moment

Between the late 1940s and the early 1960s, in the city then called Lourenço Marques, a generation of architects produced a body of work
Twenty Years of Mozambique Fashion Week: The Cherry Before the Cake

Each edition of Mozambique Fashion Week opens with a poem. Written by Mozambican poet and artist Sonia Sultuane, it calls attention
The Tunnel Is Louder Than the Stadium

How African teams sing their way into battle at AFCON 2025
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. […]