Adding MBE is no small feat, but the honor from Queen Elizabeth II is just another day in the life of Nubian Skin Founder and Director Ade Hassan.
Read MoreWith summer in full form, rest assured our faves will come through with new music, but it's a win-win when new fashion isn't far behind. Wizkid's latest single "Come Closer" featuring Drake from his newest album Sounds From The Other Side does not disappoint in either department.
Read MoreCoast To Coast - Uncovering Nigerian-Made Fabrics, a new mini-series from Modé Aderinokun's STUDIO OF MODÉ, is tackling a long intriguing topic of indigenous fabrics in Nigeria.
Read More"What We're Watching" is our newest series dedicated to highlighting global programming as pertains to fashion, design, and culture (and the business engines behind them) all across the diaspora.
Read MoreIn a few weeks, Sotheby's Auction House will host its inaugural sale of modern and contemporary African art.
Read MoreA number of publications (including the New York Times and The Guardian) have covered the news of Ghanaian Edward Enninful OBE's recent appointment to editor-in-chief of British Vogue. Enninful was no doubt qualified to take the helm and yet, it took the fashion world by surprise.
Read MoreIt's about time is the only answer to the quickly spreading hashtag #HowAboutNOW regarding Nigeria's inclusion in the 57-year old Biennale Arte 2017 come this May.
Read MoreThe richness of the African continent is arguably undisputed, but largely unreflected in mass modern media. Ghanaian-born writer, filmmaker, and art historian Nana Oforiatta-Ayim set out to change that with the Cultural Encyclopedia.
Read MoreA highly anticipated sophomore album from Ibibio Sound Machine dropped last Friday.
Read MoreWhat a childhood to grow up in a home with a father who led the Compton, California chapter of the Black Panther Party in the late 1960s. That and much more is the study of Sadie Barnette's first solo exhibition entitled Do Not Destroy.
Read MoreNigerian-born artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby sold her work Drown for a record $1,092,500 at Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening Auction in New York.
Read MoreA first-ever publicly released film by polymath Arthur Jafa to a packed house at Gavin Brown's Enterprise in Harlem.
Read MoreThe emerging designers on the African continent deserve access to the same resources as those given to creatives in London, New York, and elsewhere. Why?
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