The Woman Behind Dakar Fashion Week
The Woman Behind Dakar Fashion Week Adama Paris built Africa’s longest-running fashion week. Then she put it on the ocean. Adama Amanda Ndiaye, Founder of Dakar Fashion Week. Photography by Mario Epanya There are cities that host fashion weeks, and there are cities that shape them. Dakar belongs to the second kind. The most recent […]
The Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony, Reimagined Through a Photographer’s Lens
Long before coffee became a global commodity, legend placed its origin in the Ethiopian highlands. Kaldi, a goat herder,
The Tailor, the Bassist, and the Look That Defined Zambian Rock
The cover of WITCH’s 1972 debut Introduction was photographed by John Chadwick and designed by Ro Barry. These
Best of Culture 2025
2025 was the year African culture stopped explaining itself. The shift was visible
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
Best of Fashion 2025
African fashion in 2025 was defined by intention. Across runways, campaigns, museums, and community spaces,
The Art of Being Seen: Fashion as Resistance Across Four African Subcultures
Some of the most compelling expressions of identity are found in the subcultures that transform everyday
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
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 […]