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Funfere Koroye on product design for the West African consumer
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Nigerian product designer has designed a range of products that take into account the uniqueness of a West African consumer.
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23 May 19
Adebayo Oke-Lawal is rethinking masculinity in African culture
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The Nigerian designer’s brand Orange Culture embraces those who do not fit in and celebrates their individuality.
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22 May 19
Jomo Tariku on changing perceptions around what constitutes modern furniture
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“The modern furniture industry treats African furniture as something of a novelty,” says the Ethiopian-American furniture designer.
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20 May 19
Tshepo Mokholo on the transformational power of architecture to inspire
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The African Design Centre graduate on how growing up in an unusual house in Soweto would later inspire his career in design.
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14 May 19
Warka Water is finding innovative solutions to water, energy and housing problems
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The structure has been shortlisted for the 2019 Aga Khan Award for Architecture.
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13 May 19
Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama on the optimism in our failure
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"My work is a manifestation of the failures and contradictions of history, but it also explores potentialities."
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7 May 19
Ethical, local fashion in Kampala
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Ugandan-born fashion designer Edward Sempa talks about how the fashion industry across the world is changing to suit our desire for instant gratification.
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7 May 19
Blockchain in Africa, the leapfrog continent
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Africa’s embrace of the technology could put it in a position to take a developmental detour.
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6 May 19
Omar Nagati on renegotiating Downtown Cairo through design
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“You need to include in any plan or revision for Downtown or any neighbourhood, the local community, which is not necessarily the case so far."
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3 May 19
Meet Botswana's Queens of Marok
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South African photographer Paul Shiakallis documents the leather-wearing women of Botswana’s heavy metal scene.
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2 May 19
Tunisia's Upside-Down Hotel, the endangered Brutalist monument
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We speak to one of the activists set on saving the national monument from its impending doom.
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2 May 19
Cameroonian architect Hermann Kamte on designing resilient African cities
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Hermann Kamte is an award-winning architect whose design philosophy looks to the past and present to make cities for the future.
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30 Apr 19
Afrominima is a Nigerian lifestyle brand inspired by Japanese and Scandinavian aesthetics
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The Olubunmi Adeyemi-helmed brand brings the minimalist movement to Africa.
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24 Apr 19
Designer Anne Kiwia upcycles discarded cloths to create high fashion headbands
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“We have enough clothes. The world is full of it. We need to start protecting our environment and stop being needless consumers.”
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22 Apr 19
Harmonia Rosales is creating new narratives around the classic art paintings
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"By creating positive works of art using black women we can begin to deconstruct our power structure."
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18 Apr 19
SA artist uses cow dung to explore questions on perception and aesthetics
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Mawande Ka Zenzile explains how his reliance on intuition has made his work a lot more honest over the years.
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12 Apr 19
(P)residant: Those who don't let go of power
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"I call them 'les presidents residants' because they never want to leave power once in the seat." – Fabrice Monteiro, photographer, Dakar.
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11 Apr 19
How ostrich feathers are uplifting Oudtshoorn's economy through design
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Pascale Theron's work looks at breathing life into the vulnerable ostrich farming industry in Oudtshoorn, South Africa.
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8 Apr 19
Sir David Adjaye designs memorial in honour of Hugh Masekela
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The Masekela family, in collaboration with Design Indaba, will be unveiling a memorial pavilion during youth month.
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4 Apr 19
The whimsical illustrations of Monica Obaga
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“I would say my aesthetic has always been whimsical because all my favourite media as a child were musicals, cartoons, books, comics and fashion.”
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3 Apr 19
Youngsta: Rapping the stories of the Cape Colony
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We sat down with one of South African rap's busiest and most artists.
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3 Apr 19
IKEA ÖVERALLT: In the designers' words
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At Design Indaba Conference 2019, the group of African designers share the motivations behind the products they dreamed up and realised.
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2 Apr 19
Alexis Peskine explores the black experience through unconventional mediums
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He speaks on his Afro-French heritage, immigration and the global black experience.
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2 Apr 19
The African crown reimagined
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Inspired by the work of J.D. Okhai Ojeikere, Medina Dugger and GIF artist François Beaurain celebrate the complexity of hair in Nigeria.
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1 Apr 19
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