Africa Art, architecture and travel
Let Wallpaper* guide you through the worlds of art, design and architecture in Africa - and discover where to go and what to see when you travel to Africa.
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Kéré Architecture’s Uganda community centre provides safety and opportunity
A Uganda community centre created by Kéré Architecture was designed with development in mind
By Martha Elliott • Published
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Reflections & Opportunities: Design, Cities and The World Cup
By Lauren Ho • Last updated
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Cover story: Michael MacGarry designs limited edition cover for April 2020
Each month Wallpaper* offers a leading creative figure carte blanche to design a limited-edition cover, available exclusively to our subscribers. Here, Johannesburg-based artist Michael MacGarry reveals the inspiration behind his digital illustration for the April 2020 issue, arriving in post boxes anytime now
By Oyin Akande • Last updated
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African queen: we dip a regal toe in the rising tribal art market
By Daniel Scheffler • Last updated
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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
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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
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Fondation Louis Vuitton throws into sharp relief the raw energy of African art
By Emma O'Kelly • Last updated
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1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair: the eye of modern Mali and more
By Grace Banks • Last updated
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Manuel Herz wins Senegal hospital project in Tambacounda
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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A new Marrakech museum is bringing Africa’s flourishing art scene home
By Jessica Klingelfuss • Last updated
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The winners of the inaugural Africa Architecture Awards announced
By Harriet Thorpe • Last updated
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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
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Home proud: surveying the work of African architect Francis Kéré
By Harriet Thorpe • Last updated
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A new book looks to the future of African art, while remembering its roots
By Elly Parsons • Last updated
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What to see at FNB Joburg Art Fair 2018
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith • Last updated
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A major new survey celebrates the creative reclamation and nurturing spirit of Ghanaian artist El Anatsui
By Ayodeji Rotinwa • Last updated
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Vitra Design Museum unmasks the new face of African design
By Nick Compton • Last updated
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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
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’Dreams’ by Koto Bolofo
By Apphia Michael • Last updated
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