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Q309: Afrolectric

Going beyond the stereotypes of our sprawling, diverse, magnetic continent, this edition finds an “Afrolectric” cast of creative upstarts.

Lemn Sissay turns words into monuments, literally. Spending some time in South Africa, the poet gives Nadine Botha a verbal whiplashing.

You’d think that, as a designer based in Africa, it would be easy to answer the question “What constitutes African design?”

Ghariokwu Lemi’s cover designs continue to spread the Felasophy in Nigeria and the world. “It is forever and a day,” he tells Design Indaba.

Cow Africa is a small agency in Cape Town that specialise in guerrilla marketing through stunts, the web and mobile.

Design Indaba asked creatives born on the continent which of their works was most influenced by their place of birth.

Youssef Nabil tells Design Indaba about cinema, sleep, death and living between places.

Givan Lötz seeks to blur the line between design craft and contemporary fine art.

Spoek Mathambo is the MC who is burning up the European dance charts with his Sweat.X and Playdoe collaborations.

Stacy Hardy and François Naudé have rewritten JM Coetzee’s polemical novel through the eyes of a digital globalised culture.

Design duo Adriaan Hugo and Katy Taplin are designing a cross-cultural commonality through abstraction.

The “Metropolis” edition of Design Indaba magazine considers the world’s expected urban influx and the future role design should play.

The Young Dreamers. Youth is wasted on the young. Youth is the future of culture.

Design Indaba magazine’s 10th birthday edition teams up past and present speakers to discuss design and life.

It’s time to not only design the solution yourself, but do it yourself!