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The Gathering
How We Live
Fashion, building, design and photography, pooled.
Africa Fashion Decoded
Pan-African
Journalist-written on the history, culture and business of African fashion.
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4 Sep
Is Berlin and Copenhagen the New Frontier for African fashion?
Fruche SS27. Photo via Fruche. If you’ve ever heard the words, “it’s always fashion week somewhere” its probably true. Before the Big Four fashion weeks (New…
Africa Fashion Decoded
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21 Aug
How a Cameroonian Designer is Rewriting the Rules of Couture
Imane Ayissi Autum/Winter 2026 Haute Couture Collection. Courtessy of The Impression In January 2020 at the start of fashion week season and exactly a week before…
Africa Fashion Decoded
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18 Aug
When did men move away from carrying wallets?
From wallets to card holders to smart devices There was once a time when wallets measured manliness and social status. Growing up, I saw them everywhere…
Africa Fashion Decoded
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21 Apr
Fashion in the Time of War
It’s over 50 days since the war between Israel-America, and Iran began. Sudan is facing one of the worst famines in modern history, according to the…
Africa Fashion Decoded
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18 Feb
How African Institutions Continuously Fail its Fashion Industry
L-R: Rich Mnisi, 2018 by Trevor Stuurman, Maki Oh by Robert HenningLast week, the LVMH Prize announced its 2026 semi-finalists, featuring 20 of the brightest design…
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16 Feb
Reviews From Berlin Fashion Week, and Elle Magazine Africa Launches
Kenneth Ize Autumn/Winter 2026 Highlights From Berlin Fashion WeekOrange Culture Autumn/Winter 2026Adebayo Oke-Lawal has come a long way since launching Orange Culture circa 2011. Back then,…
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10 Feb
Notes From Couture Part 2: Meet the Kenyan Artist Behind Dior’s Sculptural Haute Couture Gowns
Dior Spring/Summer 2026 Haute Couture Jonathan Anderson is accustomed to blending fashion with art and crafts. As a frequent collaborator with diverse artists from various disciplines,…
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9 Feb
Notes From Couture Part 1: Imane Ayissi explores the Cathartic Language of Design
Imane Ayissi Spring 2026 haute couture For Imane Ayissi, couture is about momentarily fleeing the lows of life. This spring/summer 2026 season in Paris, the Cameroon-born…
Africa Fashion Decoded
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Africa Reimagined
Pan-African
Weekly market and industry analysis. How to price an African fashion brand, and who is buying. Some posts truncate for non-subscribers.
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4 Sep
The Summer of African Fashion Pop-ups
Welcome back to Africa Reimagined! It’s back-to-school season, and many of us here in London are getting ready for the Autumn. But before we officially bid…
Ezreen Benissan
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28 Aug
6/54: What Does it Take to Build a Luxury Brand in Madagascar
Welcome back to Africa Reimagined! Today, we’re back with a long-awaited 54/54 feature. For those who are new here, 54/54 is a series where we spotlight…
Ezreen Benissan
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14 Aug
Where is Africa in a Brand's Global Strategy?
Welcome back to Africa Reimagined!“What does it truly mean to be a global brand?” That’s the question a designer asked me one Wednesday afternoon over Zoom.…
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7 Aug
Iamisigo Returns to Copenhagen Fashion Week
Welcome back to Africa Reimagined! On Thursday afternoon, Iamisigo, the Nigerian brand and 2026 LVMH Prize semi-finalist, returned to Copenhagen Fashion Week for another extraordinarily charmed…
Ezreen Benissan
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31 Jul
The V&A's Africa Fashion Exhibition Comes to an End
Photo: Victoria and Albert MuseumHello and welcome back to Africa Reimagined!How many of you recall the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Africa Fashion exhibition that quite literally…
Ezreen Benissan
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24 Jul
How to Price an African Fashion Brand
Hello and welcome back to Africa Reimagined! One thing we do not talk enough about in the African fashion industry is pricing — specifically, the importance…
Ezreen Benissan
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3 Jul
African Nations are Banning the Export of Raw Shea Nuts. Can it Boost the Economy?
Welcome back to Africa Reimaged! Today, we’re talking about all things shea butter — one of my favourite things to talk about. It’s an ingredient I…
Ezreen Benissan
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26 Jun
Lagos Fashion Week Just Unveiled a New Manifesto
Hello and welcome back to Africa Reimagined! If it wasn’t obvious, one thing I love is a really good discussion about African fashion. One that doesn’t…
Ezreen Benissan
4 min
Design Indaba
South Africa
South African platform, but the projects it showcases are global. Included for the eye rather than for African coverage.
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4 Sep
Visualisation of Reality
Riksbyggen and creative agency BBDO Nordics makes Sweden’s housing crisis tangibleAmidst Sweden’s housing affordability crisis, housing developer Riksbyggen and creative agency BBDO Nordics have designed a…
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4 Sep
For the City
A youth centre designed to give back public space to the cityDesigned by DUNAR Arquitectos in collaboration with Felipe Retuerto, the Alcalá de Guadaíra Youth Centre,…
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4 Sep
Digital Camouflage
German designer Simon Weckert designs anti-AI surveillance shirtAs AI detection systems become more prominent, German designer Simon Weckert has created a shirt to interrupt the how…
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28 Aug
EyeCapture
Award winning eye examination for home use. Central Saint Martins graduate, Megan Turtle, has been awarded the Cambridge Consultants Associate Prize for Breakthrough Design at New…
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27 Aug
Yomi Reading Companion
Award winning product design turns reading into a game with a Tamagotchi-inspired digital companion for childrenPresented with the Cadbury-Mondelz International Consumer Design Award, Wing-See Yau, a…
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27 Aug
The Whale
Dorte Mandrup, Danish architect, unveils The Whale, a cultural landmark dedicated to the marine giant. The Whale, a cultural centre in Andenes, on the island of…
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21 Aug
The Wasteland Sauna
A pink lithium crystal sauna Turns a Toxic Wasteland into a place of revivalWasteLand Climate Action Park, a former contaminated industrial site, is the home to…
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21 Aug
Silver Linings
Pentagram Turns Longevity Research into an Interactive Map of Possible FuturesPentagram designed, the Silver Linings report turns Raiany Romanni-Klein’s complex longevity research into an interactive digital…
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African Centre for Cities
South Africa
UCT research writing on southern urbanism, water, land and how African cities actually work. Mixed with institutional notices.
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31 Aug
From Questions to Possibilities: Reflections from the Master’s in Southern Urbanism Writing Retreat
The post From Questions to Possibilities: Reflections from the Master’s in Southern Urbanism Writing Retreat appeared first on African Centre for Cities.
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4 Aug
Beyond the pipes — How water scarcity determines life in Global South cities
The post Beyond the pipes — How water scarcity determines life in Global South cities appeared first on African Centre for Cities.
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27 Jul
Urban95 Academy expands to Africa in partnership with the African Centre for Cities
The post Urban95 Academy expands to Africa in partnership with the African Centre for Cities appeared first on African Centre for Cities.
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16 Jul
ACC reiterates UCT Council’s call to reject acts of xenophobia and violence
The post ACC reiterates UCT Council’s call to reject acts of xenophobia and violence appeared first on African Centre for Cities.
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10 Jun
Vacancy: Project Coordinator (City Hall Fellowship)
The post Vacancy: Project Coordinator (City Hall Fellowship) appeared first on African Centre for Cities.
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23 Apr
Call for Applications: Two AMALI Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
The post Call for Applications: Two AMALI Postdoctoral Research Fellowships appeared first on African Centre for Cities.
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8 Apr
DAAD Call for Scholarship Applications 2027: MPhil in Urban Studies – Southern Urbanism
The post DAAD Call for Scholarship Applications 2027: MPhil in Urban Studies – Southern Urbanism appeared first on African Centre for Cities.
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1 Apr
AfriFOODChronicles
The post AfriFOODChronicles appeared first on African Centre for Cities.
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Tender Photo
Pan-African
Emmanuel Iduma takes one African photographer per issue and writes a critical essay on them. The only living African photography criticism with a feed.
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26 Aug
A Short Break
“Camping by the Lake,” by Ama Benewaa TawiahThis past Wednesday, we published the 200th edition of the newsletter. You can see recent features in our archive.…
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19 Aug
The Voids
This is the 200th edition of Tender Photo, a newsletter on African photography supported by MPB.com. A weathered wall fills the frame, punctured by small square…
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14 Aug
The Garden
Jackson, Company Gardens, Cape TownDee, Arderne Gardens, Claremont Cape TownAmy picking flowers, Julia’s Garden, Retreat, Cape Town.In a series of photographs titled The Garden, the Zambian-born…
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12 Aug
Care In Cycles
This is the 199th edition of Tender Photo, a newsletter on African photography supported by MPB.com. A young woman reaches across an older woman’s shoulders, adjusting…
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7 Aug
Sites of Mourning
This portfolio contains descriptions of violence, and thus may be emotionally challenging for certain viewers and readers.Soldier in uniform, 2015. N3 Highway, Edenvale Alberton. The photograph…
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5 Aug
Together, yet apart
This is the 198th edition of Tender Photo, a newsletter on African photography supported by MPB.com. Two boys occupy the foreground of a monochrome frame. One…
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29 Jul
How We Wear Our Faith
This is the 197th edition of Tender Photo, a newsletter on African photography supported by MPB.com. Two figures stand at the threshold, their faces withheld beyond…
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22 Jul
Crossing the Confluence
This is the 196th edition of Tender Photo, a newsletter on African photography supported by MPB.com. A ferry moves across a broad brown river, its wake…
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African Digital Art
Pan-African
Interviews and essays on African digital art, XR and design. Irregular but consistently interesting.
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22 Jul
Tizita as Technology: How Yatreda Is Revolutionizing African Storytelling
What if the future of digital storytelling begins not with artificial intelligence, but with memory? Through the Ethiopian philosophy of tizita, Yatreda has developed one of…
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6 Jul
Interview with Chepkemboi Mang’ira: African Fashion, AI and Ancestral Design
Chepkemboi J. Mang'ira on beadwork as archive, the Maasai court cases nobody remembers when they type a prompt, and what a community-led AI framework would actually…
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25 Jun
The World Is the Game: How African Developers Are Building Entirely New Visual Universes
A new generation of African game developers, concept artists, and world-builders is doing something the industry has never seen before — placing Africa at the centre…
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19 Jun
After the Hype: What African Artists Actually Built with NFTs
On 28 May 2026, Tiwani Contemporary — one of the few galleries in the world with a stated commitment to contemporary African and diaspora art —…
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14 Jun
Creating worlds from the inside: a guide to XR for African digital artists
Introduction The moment presence changes everything There is a moment in every immersive experience — the precise second when a viewer stops looking at your work…
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21 May
The Frequencies of Vince Fraser: Afro-Surrealism, Ancestral Memory, and the Art of Cultural Reclamation
This is the world of Vince Fraser: a London-born artist of Jamaican heritage who, over three decades in the creative industries, has become one of the…
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17 May
The Cut and the Claim: African Digital Collage and the Art of Resistance
Collage has never been a neutral act. From the moment an image is cut free from its original context and placed beside another, a claim is…
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17 May
Gods in the Machine: Orisha, Ancestors and African Spiritual Traditions in Digital Art
There is a word in Yoruba — aṣẹ — that describes the divine energy running through all living things: the power to make things happen, to…
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Fashion Africa Now
Hamburg · edited abroad
Designer profiles, costume criticism and cultural writing on creative Africa. Editorial rather than shopping.
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3 Sep
BILLIE: Shaping New Visual Narratives
We are delighted to introduce the feature film BILLIE, opening in German cinemas on 17 September 2026. BILLIE, beyond representation and shaping new visual narratives. A…
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2 Sep
CINEMA RELEASE HAMBURG
We are delighted to introduce the feature film BILLIE, opening in German cinemas on 17 September 2026, with Beatrace Oola as Head of Costume Design. A…
Fashion Africa Now
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5 Aug
ZENAM: Where Tradition Weaves the Future
Where Heritage Meets Craft We are at Urus Restaurant & Lounge, in one of Milan’s neighborhoods where the aromas of African cuisine fill the air and…
Alina Balijja
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8 Jul
I Don’t Look Like What I’ve Been Through
The visionary twins behind BruceGlen have redefined contemporary fashion through their fearless celebration of color, pattern, and self-expression. Their work is a vibrant reminder that fashion…
Fashion Africa Now
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22 Mar
HAAR ALS KUNST
Neue Ausstellung in Malmö stellt afro-texturiertes Haar als Kunst, Wissen und Identität in den Mittelpunkt. Fulani Braid Bar präsentiert Hair Is Art, eine neue Ausstellung, die…
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13 Feb
FABRIC – A Top Business
AFA MOVIE CLUB PRESENTS, IN COOPERATION WITH STADTKINO WIEN, THE DOCUMENTARY FABRIC – A TOP BUSINESS, WHICH FOLLOWS A LITTLE-EXAMINED CONNECTION BETWEEN NIGERIA AND AUSTRIA. THE…
Fashion Africa Now
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1 Nov 2025
Fabric of a shared Future
Fabric of a Shared Future – A Textile Dialogue and Design Project Between Hamburg and Kampala How textile art merges design worlds, builds bridges, weaves knowledge,…
Fashion Africa Now
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26 Sep 2025
FILMPREMIERE
GUESS WHAT…? WE MADE A MOVIE! We are beyond excited to finally share: that our founder Beatrace Oola was the Costume Designer for the feature film…
Fashion Africa Now
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