The lights dim at Lagos Fashion Week. Cameras lift. Out walks a model in a sculpted Oshobor creation, a blaze of colour, cuts sharp as memory, fabric carrying the weight of Benin’s royal pageantry. It isn’t just clothing; it’s a manifesto. In that moment, the runway feels less like a stage and more like an […]
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Nollywood has never been shy of spectacle. Three decades on, the industry has dressed its characters so eloquently beyond the script — from sequined declarations of intention to head-ties that sit like crowns. Costume has never been decoration; it has been psychology, character, and cultural history interpreted through fabric. Some films have pushed this visual
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In Afrobeats‘ rainbow, music is only half the show. Fashion has become just as integral to the genre’s identity, a visual vocabulary of self-assurance, cultural pride, and artistic individuality. These five male artists belt hits but wear them too, showing up in styles that are as rhythmical and daring as their songs. Rema Rema’s sense
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Some holidays are all about relaxing, and others are all about gazing. And then there are journeys where you are a part of the landscape, where your travel destination is also your catwalk, and every corner invites you to dress up. Africa is a continent that knows what beauty is, both in structure and nature,
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Amaarae’s third studio album, “Black Star,” dropped on August 8, 2025, into an already crowded year for African pop. Within days, it became one of the most talked-about drops on social media and in the music press, not because it was charting, but because it spread across cities, genres, and identities. Recorded between Miami, Brazil,
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At the start of 2018, it was glistening gold on the Milan Fashion Week catwalk as Wizkid took his place at Dolce & Gabbana, sharing the runways with supermodel Naomi Campbell and even designer Stefano Gabbana himself. It was a dream come true-not only because a Nigerian pop artist had made it onto one of
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It starts with a pair of Nike trainers on the feet of a teenager in Lagos and an Adidas tracksuit on a billboard in Nairobi. At a fashion pop-up in Accra, the Louis Vuitton monogram is discernible under a wax print jacket. African urban fashion is no longer just local; it’s global, and the global
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When Made Kuti released his sophomore album Chapter 1: Where Does Happiness Come From, it wasn’t merely a sophomore release. It was a declaration of independence within a dynasty that has defined Afrobeat for decades. Born into the legacy of his grandfather Fela and father Femi, Made has had his expectations since birth. But with
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At a symbolic dawn in Cotonou, U.S. artist Ciara was among the first to be accepted on a historic morning in African history, becoming one of the first individuals officially received as a citizen of Benin under a pioneering new law seeking to reconnect descendants of enslaved Africans with their heritage. This action, taken on
