Africa Art, architecture and travel

African queen: we dip a regal toe in the rising tribal art market

By Daniel Scheffler • Last updated 28 October 22

Kudzanai-Violet Hwami creates limited-edition cover for Wallpaper’s January 2021 issue

Each month Wallpaper* offers a leading creative figure carte blanche to design a limited-edition cover. For our January 2021 Next Generation issue, young Zimbabwean artist Kudzanai-Violet Hwami drew on her experience of social media to create a new painting, Plains of the Christmas Cow.

By TF Chan • Last updated 28 October 22

Kudzanai-Violet Hwami’s modern-pop portraits frame gender, sexuality and race

The Zimbabwean-born artist, who explores identity through vivid cartoon-inspired collages, headlines our January 2021 Next Generation issue. Writer Amah-Rose Abrams interviewed Hwami ahead of today's announcement that she has joined the roster of Victoria Miro Gallery

By Amah-Rose Abrams • Last updated 28 October 22

Fondation Louis Vuitton throws into sharp relief the raw energy of African art

By Emma O'Kelly • Last updated 28 October 22

1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair: the eye of modern Mali and more

By Grace Banks • Last updated 27 October 22

Manuel Herz wins Senegal hospital project in Tambacounda

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 26 October 22

A new Marrakech museum is bringing Africa’s flourishing art scene home

By Jessica Klingelfuss • Last updated 21 October 22

The winners of the inaugural Africa Architecture Awards announced

By Harriet Thorpe • Last updated 20 October 22

Mariam Issoufou Kamara to design Bët-bi museum in Senegal

Mariam Issoufou Kamara, founder of Atelier Masōmī in Niger, has been selected by a jury to lead the design of the new Bët-bi museum in the Senegambia region of West Africa

By Hannah Silver • Last updated 20 October 22

Home proud: surveying the work of African architect Francis Kéré

By Harriet Thorpe • Last updated 17 October 22

A new book looks to the future of African art, while remembering its roots

By Elly Parsons • Last updated 14 October 22

What to see at FNB Joburg Art Fair 2018

By Harriet Lloyd-Smith • Last updated 14 October 22

A major new survey celebrates the creative reclamation and nurturing spirit of Ghanaian artist El Anatsui

By Ayodeji Rotinwa • Last updated 14 October 22

Ibrahim Mahama explores bats, Ghana, and new beginnings at White Cube

Ibrahim Mahama’s ‘Lazarus’, a new exhibition at White Cube (until 7 November 2021), sees the Ghanaian artist explore the hidden life of Nkrumah Volini, a brutalist grain silo from Ghana’s immediate postcolonial era

By Tom Seymour • Last updated 13 October 22

A virtual tour of Houston FotoFest: ‘Africa is everywhere'

Our digital review of the festival explores photography's historic link to colonialism and resistance, surveyed by 33 global African artists

By Tom Seymour • Last updated 13 October 22

Last chance to see: Studio NYALI's Venice pavilion on African futures

ArchiAfrika Pavilion by Studio NYALI traverses historic and contemporary architectural design coming from practitioners in Africa and its diaspora

By Nasra Abdullahi • Last updated 12 October 22

A Marrakech exhibition takes a radical view of identity and social unrest

Following an international descent of visitors for 1-54 art fair, a group exhibition at MACAAL surveys the politics of identity through 12 global voices

By Harriet Lloyd-Smith • Last updated 12 October 22

San Francisco’s Museum of the African Diaspora reopens with Billie Zangewa and Amoako Boafo

Reopening for the first time since the onset of Covid-19, San Francisco’s Museum of the African Diaspora is staging epic exhibitions by Amoako Boafo and Billie Zangewa

By Pei-Ru Keh • Last updated 12 October 22

African art and design celebrated at the Xigera Safari Lodge

Located in Botswana's impressive Okavango Delta and immersed in nature, the Xigera Safari Lodge features a remarkable collection of African art and design pieces curated by South African gallery Southern Guild

By Rosa Bertoli • Last updated 11 October 22

Andile Dyalvane honours Xhosa culture in clay

Andile Dyalvane presents ‘iThongo’, a collection of ceramic pieces showcased through an exhibition at Friedman Benda, until 22 May 2021, and a documentary film following the designer back to his hometown

By Rosa Bertoli • Last updated 10 October 22

Five African artists demonstrating creative resilience in challenging times

As the world is forced to embrace new social distancing measures, we look at how five very different African artists are finding creative solace in solitude 

By Rebecca Anne Proctor • Last updated 10 October 22

Vitra Design Museum unmasks the new face of African design

By Nick Compton • Last updated 10 October 22

Zizipho Poswa: ‘I celebrate my heritage, and I forge my own way’

South African designer and artist Zizipho Poswa talks about her iLobola collection and the traditions that inspired it, in a new video by Southern Guild Gallery in cooperation with BMW South Africa

By Rosa Bertoli • Last updated 10 October 22

’Dreams’ by Koto Bolofo

By Apphia Michael • Last updated 10 October 22