The Gathering
How We Live
Fashion, building, design and photography, pooled.
African Digital Art
Pan-African
Interviews and essays on African digital art, XR and design. Irregular but consistently interesting.
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30 Oct
Udi Foundry: Radical Imagining of African Typefaces for Global Use
From hand-painted shop signs and the rhythms of traditional instruments to the visual language of contemporary design, Africa holds an extraordinary archive of letterforms waiting to…
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13 Sep
Umi-Amara Ibrahim: Drawing Beauty and Possibility Across Mediums
The Nigerian multidisciplinary artist brings portraiture, pattern and digital experimentation together in a practice rooted in expression rather than convention. Working under the name Amara Skywalker,…
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10 Sep
Kudzanai Chiurai: The Politics of Memory, Power and the Unfinished Postcolonial Image
Across photography, film, painting, sculpture, sound and archives, Kudzanai Chiurai has spent two decades examining what remains after independence: the violence that survives political transitions, the…
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6 Sep
Shaun Beyond: Building Worlds Beyond the Archetype
From Mauritius, the digital artist has spent more than a decade creating images that move between African futurism, surrealism, spirituality and the imagination. There is a…
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6 Sep
Njung’e Wanjiru: Drawing New Languages for African Stories
Njung’e Wanjiru is a visual artist based between Nairobi and Addis Ababa, working across illustration, animation, and graphic recording. His practice explores visual communication as a…
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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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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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30 Oct
A New Standard
ASICS and Karimoku sustainably decommission sneakers by giving them a second life as furnitureASICS and Japanese furniture brand Karimoku New Standard (KNS) are setting a new…
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29 Oct
Bobo
A period companion designed to help young girls track their period health. Bobo, a tactile and interactive companion device, designed by Anoushka Sawardekar as part of…
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29 Oct
The Whispers of Plants
The Electric Plant Co is using technology to better understand and respond to nature. The Electric Plant Co. has developed a Bud sensor to capture the…
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23 Oct
Finally, Something Good
Stefan Sagmeister turns shoes into wearable data visualisations for his exhibition at Paris’s Gaîté Lyrique 'Finally, Something Good’ , Stefan Sagmeister’s exhibition at Paris’s Gaîté Lyrique,…
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22 Oct
AnemoSwab
A James Dyson award winning low-cost, 3D Printed device to test for respiratory infections AnemoSwab, an innovation designed by Yonatan Morocz, a McGill University researcher is…
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21 Oct
The Harvest Season
Ibrahim Mahama reimagines cultural possibilities Acclaimed Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama transforms the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris into a space for confronting history and…
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16 Oct
Train Jazz
Joshua Wolk puts creates music from the New York’s subway transit
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16 Oct
After the Last Sip
Designers Chao-Chun Kung, Ching-Yu Lin and Chen-Yang Chang turn coffee grounds into interior design elementsAfter the Last Sip, a featured exhibition at London Design Festival 2026,…
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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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23 Oct
Can A-Beauty Become Europe’s Next Big Category?
Hello and welcome back to Africa Reimagined! It’s been a while since we discussed African beauty (A-beauty) and its potential in the international market. Today, that…
Ezreen Benissan
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2 Oct
Why This East African Country Is Becoming a Luxury Hotspot
Hello and welcome to Africa Reimagined! Travel in Africa is booming; beyond the usual destinations such as Morocco or Seychelles, which hundreds of thousands of people…
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18 Sep
Why Harrods Is Backing African Fashion
Hello and welcome back to Africa Reimagined! Last week, hundreds of people gathered at The Grill’s roof terrace in Harrods to celebrate the launch of Brand63Africa’s…
Ezreen Benissan
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11 Sep
Yoshita 1967’s Historic LVMH Prize Win
Hello and welcome back to Africa Reimagined! Exactly a week ago, LVMH unveiled the 2026 recipients of the prestigious LVMH Prize in Paris. Julie Kegels won…
Ezreen Benissan
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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
3 min
Africa Fashion Decoded
Pan-African
Journalist-written on the history, culture and business of African fashion.
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23 Oct
Abiola Olusola is not a slave to fashion
Interviews is a brand new series celebrating the most compelling voices in African fashion, design, and culture. For our debut edition, Innocent Ndlovu chats to Abiola…
Africa Fashion Decoded
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16 Oct
How a South African Brand is Crafting its Next Chapter
MaXhosa Spring/Summer 2027. Paris Fashion Week For sixteen years, MaXhosa has redefined the South African fashion landscape with its high-end, vibrantly patterned wool designs. Launched as…
Africa Fashion Decoded
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8 Oct
At London Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2027: Rebirths and Threequels
Onalaja Spring/Summer 2027Before sending her models down the runway, British-Nigerian designer Oluwakanyinsola Onalaja appeared on a screen recounting an all-time low. Three months ago, a fire…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
Africa Fashion Decoded
2 min
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
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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)
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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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Fashion Africa Now
Hamburg · edited abroad
Designer profiles, costume criticism and cultural writing on creative Africa. Editorial rather than shopping.
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15 Oct
EUNIC Imagine Festival 2026: Unweaving Fashion
SILICON SAVANNAH: THE NEW WAVE IN FASHION Unweaving colonial legacies, reclaiming knowledge and reimagining the future of fashion from an Afrodiasporic perspective What if the future…
Beatrace Angut Oola
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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…
Beatrace Angut Oola
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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…
Fashion Africa Now
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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
2 min