
"Painted across the long rains of 2024, Songs of the Iroko begins with the artist's grandmother — a woman who spoke to trees the way others speak to elders."
art · Lagos, Nigeria
Songs of the Iroko
Adaeze Okafor
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"Painted across the long rains of 2024, Songs of the Iroko begins with the artist's grandmother — a woman who spoke to trees the way others speak to elders."
art · Lagos, Nigeria
Adaeze Okafor

"Mokoena began this work after spending six months mapping the routes her family travelled during the forced removals of the 1960s."
art · Johannesburg, South Africa
Lebo Mokoena

"Woven on a four-heddle loom that has been in the Asante family for three generations, this cloth carries the Adweneasa motif — 'my skill is exhausted' — traditionally reserved for the moment a master weaver acknowledges they have given the loom everything they know."
craft · Kumasi, Ghana
Kojo Asante

"Each panel encodes a Zulu love-letter, the historic isishunka beadwork system in which colour and pattern speak where words may not."
craft · Durban, South Africa
Naledi Khumalo

"The opening look of Diop's debut couture presentation in Dakar, cut from bògòlanfini mud-cloth dyed by the women's cooperative of Ségou."
fashion · Dakar, Senegal
Aïssatou Diop

"Touré studied as an architect before turning to cloth."
fashion · Bamako, Mali
Mariam Touré

"Shot across four seasons along the shores of Lake Victoria, Mwangi's first feature follows three generations of women fishers as the lake itself becomes a witness — to colonial industry, to climate, to the slow return of a sacred fish."
documentaries · Kisumu, Kenya
Nuru Mwangi

"A patient, almost devotional portrait of the tailors of Balogun Market — men and women whose Singer machines have outlived governments."
documentaries · Lagos, Nigeria
Femi Bankole