Best of Culture 2025

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2025 was the year African culture stopped explaining itself. The shift was visible

Woven Histories: A Series on African Hair

Black-and-white photograph of Amazigh women from Morocco, their long braids decorated with charms and beads, wearing traditional garments.

A three-part Guzangs series on African hair: how it has been styled, what it has signified, and how those traditions are evolving region by region. Hair across Africa has long carried lineage, spirituality, and social standing. Woven Histories traces that record across three regions, beginning in the Maghreb and ending in East and Southern Africa. […]

Style Is Life: Reframing Africa Through the Sartorial Lens of Daniele Tamagni

Style Is Life: Reframing Africa Through the Sartorial Lens of Daniele Tamagni 1

In Dakar, where the past and future often collide in radiant defiance, Style is Life opened not just as an exhibition, but as a declaration. A necessary reframing of how Africa is seen, styled, and storied—through the radical lens of the late Daniele Tamagni. Here, fashion becomes more than fabric. It becomes language. Protest. Memory. […]