Bairro 6 de Maio
On a cold morning on the outskirts of Amadora, northwest of Lisbon, the ground gives way to rubble. Women roast corn on improvised grills, and residents sit in their doorways with morna playing low, the slow Cape Verdean music the islands call the sound of the soul. A handful of houses still stand among the […]
Puma Brought the Continent to Downtown LA. The Postcards Were the Tell
A week before the 2026 World Cup, Puma turned its Salehe Bembury launch in downtown LA into a study in designing an African football moment for the diaspora — and the postcards, not the product, told the real story.
Gustavo Nazareno Has Nothing to Explain
Afro-Brazilian painter Gustavo Nazareno on Exu, Candomblé, and a practice that asks to be encountered rather than decoded — ahead of his 2026 Opera Gallery Paris show.
Ewuresi Archer’s Complicated Love Letter to Ghana
Before the exhibition A Love Letter With Teeth, Ewuresi Archer travelled to Busua, a fishing village in the Western Region of Ghana, where she spent an eight-week residency with Berj Gallery producing the new body of work. Her initial intention was to create works that would celebrate Ghana, a love letter to a country she […]
La Vie Est Belle
Makhan Sakho is twenty-six, Guinean and Malian and Congolese by heritage, Parisian by address. He has worked as a model, stylist, producer, and creative director, but the camera is where his vision sits most fully. “I like when the photos speak for themselves,” he says. “The compositions, the colors, the textures — they allow us […]
Novo Atlantico
Tansi Makele is a Franco-Congolese filmmaker who grew up in the Paris suburbs and started making short documentaries at 19. His early work was mostly about dance and movement. Since then he has worked across fashion films, fiction, and experimental video. He cites Khalil Joseph, Terrence Malick, and Spike Lee as reference points, along with […]
Cultural Alphabet
Cultural Alphabet is creative director Dani Larbi’s own life mapped onto twenty-six letters. Each one stands in for a piece of Afro-European experience — the inheritance of being among the first generation born in Europe to African parents. Coexistence, contrast, and fusion become words; words become images; images become collectible cards. Larbi treats the project […]