Detty December’s Economic Power and Growing Divide
Detty December has returned, and across West Africa, cities like Lagos and Accra are preparing
In Justyna Obasi’s “Ritual”, Boys Learn to Tend to Themselves
Berlin-based, Polish-Nigerian director Justyna Obasi has spent the last decade making images that feel like
Trend Report: Dakar Fashion Week 2025
Dakar Fashion Week’s 24th edition ran three days across three venues
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 […]
“Who Is MOWAA Really For?”: A Critical Commentary on a Museum Caught Between Promise and Power
The Museum of West African Art (MOWAA), founded in 2020 and envisioned as one of the most ambitious
Dakar Fashion Week 2025: Day 2
Eight designers showed on Day 2, spanning Senegal, Mali, Comoros, Congo-Brazzaville, and Cameroon. The range
Holiday Dressing with Christie Brown
There’s an energy that shows up around the holidays. You feel
The Cloth That Holds the Dead
An Egungun is not a costume. It’s a technology for making ancestors show up. Outside the communities that practice it, Egungun gets misread
A Ritual-Centered Black Friday
Tucked between Black Friday deals, algorithms, and product recommendations are African-rooted brands holding space on the global beauty shelf.
Loza Maléombho and the Language of African Cosmology
The Ivorian fashion scene is vibrant and rapidly evolving, blending traditional craftsmanship with contemporary design and gaining recognition on the global stage. Among the designers