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A working library of design, type, and visual culture.
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Publication
2018NB Studio push the decorative limits of typography for African food start-up Jambo!
2018
Project
2021Spinning Yarns: how African textiles tell personal and universal tales
2021
Identity
2020Ojo Agi explores ideas of home, identity and transnational kinship pertaining to the African diaspora post-1960
2020
Project
2024The View From Lagos: inside Nigeria’s blooming skateboard communities
2024
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2012Director Jerry Rothwell on Ethiopia's very small town that's big on producing world-class runners
2012
Motion
2017African surf brand releases film about their namesake water spirit Mami Wata
2017
Motion
2019Iconic imagery is brilliantly reimagined by Ghana’s film industry in these posters from the 1980s
2019
Project
2019Shot in Nigeria, Elena Heatherwick's photographic story for the IRC is one of tragedy and resilience
2019
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2015Namsa Leuba's Khoisan explores an ancient African tribe
2015
Garment
2013Fashion: Photographer Koen Hauser pays tribute to Africa's textile design
2013
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2019Photographer Kyle Weeks captures a new narrative of hope and creativity for Africa's youth
2019
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2009George Butler in Africa
2009
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2013African studio portraits of the 1960s courtesy of Bobson Photography Studio
2013
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2023Dennis Osadebe’s character-driven paintings tell a story of his Nigerian heritage
2023
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2023Hanson Akatti designs a colourful, visual world for the West African music scene
2023
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2015Beautiful new project documenting Nigerian style by Nina Manandhar
2015
Motion
2017We speak to the three creatives behind a Nigerian-focused editorial and film for Kenzo
2017
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2017The photographer archiving South Africa’s black lesbian community
2017
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2025Karabo Mooki celebrates South Africa’s first Black show jumper
2025
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2018"You have to hear this": Brian Shimkovitz tells us the story of Awesome Tapes From Africa
2018
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2018Ryan O’Toole Collett’s portrait series in Kenya bridges the gap between photographer and subject
2018
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2016Ike Edeani records the moments in between during a trip to Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania
2016
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2012David Chancellor's Hunters offers an unsettling look at African blood sports
2012
Garment
2011Vivienne Westwood: Ethical Fashion Africa
2011
Publication
2018Nice Magazine nurtures and honestly represents young talent from the African continent
2018
Project
2020A Vibe Called Tech, Gucci and Manju Journal come together for series celebrating Ghanaian culture and gender fluidity
2020
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2015Up close with the young acrobats of Namsa Leuba’s West African roots
2015
Motion
2017Meet the filmmaker bringing intersectional feminism to South Africa: Jabu Nadia Newman
2017
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2011Awesome Tapes from Africa
2011
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2019Aimé Mpane's paintings confront the legacy of colonialism in Congo
2019
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2019Lakin Ogunbanwo’s bridal portraits reflect the diversity of Nigerian traditions
2019
Motion
2018Artist Olivié Keck explores South African youth culture through a vibrant VR video
2018
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2024Brad Ogbonna makes colourful and considerate depictions of the people of Dakar
2024
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2022“Brotherhood, community and togetherness”: Nick van Tiem documents a community of skaters in Cape Town
2022
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2020Manju Journal on what it means to be part of the African aesthetic today
2020
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2013Photography: Osma Harvilahti turns his camera on Kenya with extraordinary results
2013
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2022Jada Akoto’s design practice explores the intersection of pop culture and the African diaspora
2022
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2019Delve into this unseen archive of Roger daSilva’s photographs of 1950s Senegal
2019
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2020Mr Labembika combines his childhood in Cameroon with his adult life in London
2020
Motion
2025Sherif Apampa’s sensitive design practice tackles “Nigerian culture, boyhood and innocence”
2025
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2013Photography: Extraordinary photojournalism from Nigerian-born George Osodi
2013
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2020How Karabo Poppy Moletsane is permeating the real African aesthetic worldwide
2020
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2015Dan Wieden Is... We spend a week stalking the advertising mogul around a conference in Cape Town
2015
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2017Football Editions finds inspiration in the legends of African football
2017
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2016Uganda’s boisterous nightlife as captured by photographer Michele Sibiloni
2016
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2024The View From Lagos: The queer Nigerian artists risking everything to amplify LGBTQ+ voices
2024
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2016Lynnie Zulu decorates her exotic characters in punchy hues and patterns
2016
Typeface
2019Movement is the typeface based on the body of a South African dancer
2019
Motion
2017Ivana Bobic and Siri Johansen’s filmic portrait of Senegal, posthumously narrated by Anni Albers
2017
Project
2019Experience the joy of the Congolese Belgian community in Rebecca Fertinel's photographs
2019
Publication
2021Afrosurf, a book founded by Selema Masekela, tells the untold stories of surfing culture in Africa
2021
Project
2014Dillon Marsh visualises how much copper was produced in South African mines
2014
Project
2023Kenya Parry Josiah’s folk-inspired artworks create a joyful space for Black women
2023
Project
2010Carl Kleiner: Ethiopia
2010
Garment
2018Photographer Richard Kovacs uses experimental lighting to showcase Lagos' fashion scene
2018
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2012OK-RM absolutely nail Kaleidoscope's new contemporary Africa art issue
2012
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2013South African photographer Johno Mellish creates incredible images
2013
Identity
2010South Africa World Cup Logo
2010
Project
2017Meet KOKOKO! the Kinshasa-based band made up of artists and inventors
2017
Project
2011Timbuktu
2011
Project
2017Alice Mann photographs African men from London's La Sape
2017
Project
2025“Silent manifestos for a changing society”: photographer Moulaye Diarra uncovers the dreams of Dakar’s youth
2025
Publication
2019For its third issue Nice Magazine pays tribute to the South African township of Katlehong
2019
Project
2019From South Korea, Ghana to Berlin, Alexander Beer captures the people of the world
2019
Project
2020Jeremy Snell cinematically documents life on Ghana’s Lake Volta
2020
Motion
2017Pablo Di Prima and Ruth Ossai's film Ogbomgbom is an ode to West African "Kings"
2017
Project
2019Davina Jogi's The Portrait examines Zimbabwe after Mugabe
2019
Project
2014Opinion: Why it's the perfect time to explore Cape Town's creative community
2014
Motion
2014Film: Guinness film follows inspiring group of African dandies, The Sapeurs
2014
Project
2021A chat with the Kampala-based artist Ian Mwesiga and the imagining of his complex painterly worlds
2021
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2019A chat with Nikita Teryoshin about his time spent with the Boxing Grannies of Johannesburg
2019
Project
2010The Very Best - Warm Heart of Africa
2010
Project
2022Using only African designers, Gida is a creative journal dedicated to being “by and for Africans”
2022
Identity
2019Challenging stereotypes, Lee-Ann Olwage turns her lens to gender and identity in South Africa
2019
Project
2015Our pick of the talks from 2014's Design Indaba event in Cape Town
2015
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2013Lee Mawdsley shoots Qatar for CBQ and make us want to emigrate, fast.
2013
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2016Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s collaged images offer new perspective on the “African experience”
2016
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2015Cool South African school kids photographed by Anastasia Korosteleva
2015
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2017Victory Journal turns its gaze on Ghana’s boxing scene
2017
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2024Karabo Mooki documents South Africa’s punk rock movement, debunking stereotypes of the genre
2024
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2021In figurative and dynamic paintings, Peter Uka depicts the scenes of his childhood in Nigeria
2021
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2016Jeremiah Quarshie paints hyperreal portraits of Ghanaian women and water
2016
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2013Opinion: Away from Design Indaba, South Africa's graphics tell a tense story
2013
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2024Iconic jerseys and grassroots spirit: Victor Edeh captures football fever during the Africa Cup of Nations
2024
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2018Congo Tales offers an alternative to fear-based environmental messaging
2018
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2020Congo in Conversation chronicles important stories from the country’s rising reportage photographers
2020
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2011Awesome Senegalese Bike Tricks
2011
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2012Introducing...The ultra-bold African supergraphics of illustrator Lynnie Zulu
2012
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2019Through portraiture, photographer Justin Keene sets up a dialogue with South Africa
2019
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2022Marie Gomis-Trezise explains how Nataal grew to become the premier platform for African creative talent
2022
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2024Marcellina Akpojotor amplifies family history in fabric-filled paintings of Nigerian domestic life
2024
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2016Photographer Kristin-Lee Moolman captures the characters of Johannesburg's creative scene
2016
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2015Our highlights from the first day of the Design Indaba event in Cape Town
2015
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2022“Skateboarding feels a lot like therapy”: Karabo Mooki shares stories of South Africa’s all-female skate group, Island Gals
2022
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2021Photographer Adedamola Odetara is working hard to document the LGBTQIA+ community in Lagos
2021
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2019The Hayward shines a light on South Africa’s born-free generation
2019
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2016Photography collective Tripod City's “candid and erratic” Ghana street photography
2016
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2023Discover South Africa’s rich culinary heritage with Hannerie Visser’s 100+ Flavours project
2023
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2016The wheels on the tro tro: Charlie Kwai captures Ghana’s spirited public transport
2016
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2018Girma Berta authentically captures the people of Addis Ababa with an iPhone
2018
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2011What's On: Kings of Kumasi: New Painting from the Asante Capital
2011
Publication
2021“I am trying to show what home looks like for me”: Illustrator Dom Campistron shines a light on queer stories from Basque culture
2021
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2020Oli Hillyer-Riley documents a close knit, and under-threat, surfing community in Nigeria
2020
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2022Photographer Benjamin Schmuck honours the Voodoo culture of Benin and West Africa
2022
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2021“I try to show them a different narrative of what a Nigerian is”: Valerie Etitinwo on deconstructing stereotypes
2021
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2018Photographer Sophie Green lenses Kenyan communities for charity Just A Drop
2018
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2012Alejandro Chaskielberg's powerful nocturnal pictures of Kenyan villages
2012
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2011What's On: Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography
2011
Poster
2023Modupe Lamikanra draws from her Nigerian heritage to create dynamic and accessible design
2023
Project
2016Photographer Ilyes Griyeb takes us to Senegal's salt lakes
2016
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2022Sianeh A. Kpukuyou’s sun-kissed portfolio celebrates “Dark skin and African stories”
2022
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2024The life cycle of tro tro buses: Caleb Kwarteng Prah fuses portraiture with Ghana’s popular transport
2024
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2012Byzantine landscapes in brilliant detail from South Africa-based illustrator Jean de Wet
2012
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2014Marc Shoul photographs Johannesburg domestics walking their employers' dogs
2014
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2014George Osodi documents the monarchs of Nigeria
2014
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2025Rain on Dry Earth: A photo series capturing the women footballers of Cameroon
2025
Motion
2014Mollie Mills’ enrapturing short film about a Johannesburg ballerina
2014
Photograph
2021Kwabena Sekyi Appiah-Nti’s new photo book documents Ghanaian culture and “its immense heritage”
2021
Publication
2025Meet the Nigerian graphic designers bringing African expression to typography
2025
Project
2018Alexander Mourant's photographs trace a road-trip he took down the length of Africa
2018
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2012Christophe Negrel's Senegal series packs a hell of a punch!
2012
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2024Album Cover Bank traces over 70 years of Nigeria’s album design and visual culture
2024
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2017Photographer Fabrice Monteiro's fear-inducing prophecy of west Africa's future
2017
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2018Asafo flags embody cultural meanings and narratives from Ghana’s Fante people
2018
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2011Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography
2011
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2017An animated story of survival during apartheid in South Africa
2017
Publication
2022Explore the legendary Festac '77 in Nigeria with Marilyn Nance's beautiful new photobook
2022
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2024Kennedy Mirema’s creative direction shines a light on Kenya’s cultural richness
2024
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2018Hugh Kinsella Cunningham's photographs show the power and resilience of the Congo's Church
2018
Motion
2013Lovely-looking teaser video promotes Diesel and Edun's Studio Africa collaboration
2013
Publication
2020This book tells the story of club music across ten cities in Africa and Europe
2020
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2024This Home of Ours: Ayesha Kazim’s photographic time capsule of Cape Town’s Bo-Kaap region
2024
Publication
2023“No outsider gaze”: Manju Journal’s debut book allows Ghana’s artists to define their own art and history
2023
Print
2018Nataal’s debut print magazine captures the creative energy of Africa and its diaspora
2018
Project
2017“Gentrification in reverse”: Lorenzo Vitturi’s photographs of a market in Lagos
2017
Identity
2024The Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) gets a rebrand that amplifies the region’s heritage and contemporary art
2024
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2020Danielle Mbonu on bringing fun to shoots and making sure Nigeria has more female directors
2020
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2016Inside the world of West African barbershops with Andrew Esiebo
2016
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2019Jump Ball celebrates the relationship between basketball and the African diaspora
2019
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2023Carlos Idun-Tawiah captures the intimacy of childhood friendships in Accra
2023
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2014Design Indaba 2014: Day two of design wisdom live from Cape Town
2014
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2014Lynnie Zulu's new solo show colourfully explores the female form
2014
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2018Thom Pierce on using photography to amplify the protests of a rural South African community
2018
Motion
2024Stephen Sawyerr’s electric short film centres on a karate dojo in Harlem’s Little Senegal
2024
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2025The furniture designers centring Nigerian cultural symbols
2025
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2014Design Indaba 2014: Rolling coverage from Cape Town's big design event
2014
Garment
2013Fashion: KISUA collaborates with African designers to create some truly remarkable clothing
2013
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2018Eddie Wrey photographs the women of West African market Adjamé
2018
Motion
2017Akinola Davies on his film for Kenzo, celebrating Nigerian traditions and culture
2017
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2019Joana Choumali’s art reimagines life in Accra and Abidjan at daybreak
2019
Identity
2017Photographer Ruth Ossai celebrates “beautiful, effortless, powerful” Nigerian identity
2017
Identity
2025Templo use typography to evoke the geology of Kenya in its Venice Biennale identity
2025
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2013Illustration: A host of illustrators wish Lynx Africa a happy 18th birthday!
2013
Photograph
2020“It’s full of magic”: Dominique Booker shares her organic conversations of the African diaspora
2020
Motion
2022Rubee Samuel’s photobook Omo Nigeria explores the Londoner’s emotional ties to West Africa
2022
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2015Wolff Olins' Ije Nwokorie on what Africa needs to harness its creative energy
2015