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Kéré Architecture’s Uganda community centre provides safety and opportunity
A Uganda community centre created by Kéré Architecture was designed with development in mind
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Mariam Issoufou Kamara to design Bët-bi museum in Senegal
Mariam Issoufou Kamara, founder of Atelier Masōmī in Niger, has been selected by a jury to lead the design of the new Bët-bi museum in the Senegambia region of West Africa
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Limbo Accra talks African creativity through our series of profiles
In a profile series with Ghanaian spatial design studio Limbo Accra, we meet its rich network of collaborators and celebrate creativity in Africa and its diaspora
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Last chance to see: Nandipha Mntambo turns Afropunk ideas into functional seating
A new exhibition by Nandipha Mntambo features the artist’s first venture into furniture, on view at Cape Town's Southern Guild until 8 April 2022
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Jiamini’s powerful jewellery pieces celebrate the strength of Kenyan women
Jennifer Mulli, creative director and founder of Jiamini, brings a modern take to Kenyan artisanal jewellery
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Netflix celebrates African talent in new documentary series
Made by Design is Netflix’s new documentary series highlighting African creative talent, with the first season dedicated to Nigerian design
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San Francisco’s Museum of the African Diaspora reopens with Billie Zangewa and Amoako Boafo
Reopening for the first time since the onset of Covid-19, San Francisco’s Museum of the African Diaspora is staging epic exhibitions by Amoako Boafo and Billie Zangewa
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Last chance to see: Studio NYALI's Venice pavilion on African futures
ArchiAfrika Pavilion by Studio NYALI traverses historic and contemporary architectural design coming from practitioners in Africa and its diaspora
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Ibrahim Mahama explores bats, Ghana, and new beginnings at White Cube
Ibrahim Mahama’s ‘Lazarus’, a new exhibition at White Cube (until 7 November 2021), sees the Ghanaian artist explore the hidden life of Nkrumah Volini, a brutalist grain silo from Ghana’s immediate postcolonial era
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Kunlé Adeyemi’s Floating Music Hub kicks off the party in Cape Verde
The Floating Music Hub in Cape Verde, by NLÉ, opens to the public offering a cultural venue like no other
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Zizipho Poswa: ‘I celebrate my heritage, and I forge my own way’
South African designer and artist Zizipho Poswa talks about her iLobola collection and the traditions that inspired it, in a new video by Southern Guild Gallery in cooperation with BMW South Africa
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Andile Dyalvane honours Xhosa culture in clay
Andile Dyalvane presents ‘iThongo’, a collection of ceramic pieces showcased through an exhibition at Friedman Benda, until 22 May 2021, and a documentary film following the designer back to his hometown
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Architectural travel: a guide to Sub-Saharan Africa
Architectural travel gets easier and more exciting, be it in person or from your sofa, with this epic seven-volume guide to Sub-Saharan Africa
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African art and design celebrated at the Xigera Safari Lodge
Located in Botswana's impressive Okavango Delta and immersed in nature, the Xigera Safari Lodge features a remarkable collection of African art and design pieces curated by South African gallery Southern Guild
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Wallpaper* Global Interiors: a snapshot of design in Africa
Our edit of furniture from the African continent includes pieces by Mabeo, Nmbello Studio, Murrmurr and Zizipho Poswa
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Kudzanai-Violet Hwami’s modern-pop portraits frame gender, sexuality and race
The Zimbabwean-born artist, who explores identity through vivid cartoon-inspired collages, headlines our January 2021 Next Generation issue. Writer Amah-Rose Abrams interviewed Hwami ahead of today's announcement that she has joined the roster of Victoria Miro Gallery
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Kudzanai-Violet Hwami creates limited-edition cover for Wallpaper’s January 2021 issue
Each month Wallpaper* offers a leading creative figure carte blanche to design a limited-edition cover. For our January 2021 Next Generation issue, young Zimbabwean artist Kudzanai-Violet Hwami drew on her experience of social media to create a new painting, Plains of the Christmas Cow.
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Architects Directory alumnus: Atelier Masomi
The Wallpaper* Architects Directory has turned 20. Conceived in 2000 as our index of emerging architectural talent, this annual listing of promising practices, has, over the years, spanned styles and continents; yet always championing the best and most exciting young studios and showcasing inspiring work with an emphasis on the residential realm. To mark the occasion, in the next months, we will be looking back at some of our over-500 alumni, to catch up about life and work since their participation and exclusively launch some of their latest completions. Drawing on local climate, materials and vernacular, Niamey's new cultural centre by Mariam Kamara will be a valuable hub for the arts in the region, but also feel at one with its environment. Kamara's studio, Atelier Masomi, was first featured in the 2019 Architect Directory.
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Architects Directory alumnus Koffi & Diabate complete Pavillon Teré
The Wallpaper* Architects Directory has turned 20. Conceived in 2000 as our index of emerging architectural talent, this annual listing of promising practices, has, over the years, spanned styles and continents; while always championing the best and most exciting young studios and showcasing inspiring work with an emphasis on the residential realm. To mark the occasion, in the next months, we will be looking back at some of our over-500 alumni, to catch up about life and work since their participation and exclusively launch some of their latest completions. Part of our 2012 Architects Directory, Côte d'Ivoire architecture studio Koffi & Diabate is now working on a variety of projects and scales, and has just completed its latest private residence, Pavillon Teré.
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Five African artists demonstrating creative resilience in challenging times
As the world is forced to embrace new social distancing measures, we look at how five very different African artists are finding creative solace in solitude
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A virtual tour of Houston FotoFest: ‘Africa is everywhere'
Our digital review of the festival explores photography's historic link to colonialism and resistance, surveyed by 33 global African artists
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Cover story: Michael MacGarry designs limited edition cover for April 2020
Each month Wallpaper* offers a leading creative figure carte blanche to design a limited-edition cover, available exclusively to our subscribers. Here, Johannesburg-based artist Michael MacGarry reveals the inspiration behind his digital illustration for the April 2020 issue, arriving in post boxes anytime now
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The new Nubuke Foundation gallery interacts with Accra’s climate
Architects Baerbel Mueller and Juergen Strohmayer craft a new raw concrete home for the Nubuke Foundation in Accra, Ghana, a gallery in sync with the local climate and entirely dedicated to African art
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A Marrakech exhibition takes a radical view of identity and social unrest
Following an international descent of visitors for 1-54 art fair, a group exhibition at MACAAL surveys the politics of identity through 12 global voices
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A major new survey celebrates the creative reclamation and nurturing spirit of Ghanaian artist El Anatsui
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What to see at FNB Joburg Art Fair 2018
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Manuel Herz wins Senegal hospital project in Tambacounda
