WORN OUT — Part II: How African Governments Are Responding to the Textile Waste Crisis
Western wardrobes don’t end in Europe or North America. They spill quietly, devastatingly onto African soil, packed into shipping containers and sold in open-air markets under the guise of “donations.” But from Accra to Kigali, Dakar to Lusaka, something is shifting. The bales keep arriving. The markets keep choking. But across the continent, a patchwork […]
DJ Hibotep Was Told She Belonged Nowhere. So She Made Her Own Frequency
In the liminal spaces between displacement and defiance, between Addis Ababa and Mogadishu, between woman and warrior stands Hibo Elmi, the artist known as DJ Hibotep. She is not merely a DJ, nor a filmmaker, nor a cultural force. She is an alkemist. One who melts borders. One who distills pain, memory, and ancestral rhythm […]