Top African Festivals to look out for in 2023 Pan African Music Festivals and Events Multiple genres Celebrations of Culture Afropunk – Johannesburg What started as an underground urban indie-rock/punk/hardcore scene, inspired a documentary, became an online...
Top 5 African Visual Artists to watch in 2023 Blackness at the centre of the narrative. Dynamic, full of life and vital. A new aesthetic . Filtering into the global consciousness. Rendani Nemakhavhani (PR$DNT HONEY) @prsdnthoney – South Africa Rendani Nemakhavhani...
Top 5 African Designers to watch in 2023 Sustainably sourced. Craftsmanship Traditional textiles. Elements of design. Tongoro @tongorostudio – Senegal Founded in in 2016 by Paris-born, Ivory Coast-raised creative director Sarah Diouf, Tongoro is a ready-to-wear label...
Finchitua combines digital art and Fashion. A new kind of fashion show Fashion and digital art Real clothes not costumes or gimmicks Images with a statement The future of digital fashion Dubai-based, Ethiopian designer, Feiruza Mudessir, has seen the future of...
How we made wax print ours. Origins: how wax print cloth became African How it became part of “our” culture. Cloth into language Money by the yard Pride, a deeper love This is a story of one fabric and how it came to symbolise a continent, it’s people and their...
The Art of Style – Meet Mozambican Fashion Stylist: Luxury RecYcle. Winner of the 2021 Ordartey Fashion and Style Awards for Best fashion stylist. Has styled SA celebs Kelly Khumalo, Jimmy Dludlu & Anele Zondo From ad campaigns to a TV show, music video,...