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Architectural travel: a guide to Sub-Saharan Africa
Architectural travel gets easier and more exciting, be it in person or from your sofa, with this epic seven-volume guide to Sub-Saharan Africa
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Last chance to see: Nandipha Mntambo turns Afropunk ideas into functional seating
A new exhibition by Nandipha Mntambo features the artist’s first venture into furniture, on view at Cape Town's Southern Guild until 8 April 2022
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Adventure country: Roads’ newest scents bottle the excitement and energy of Africa
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Singita Sweni’s bold and colourful design by Cecile & Boyd
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Architects Directory alumnus: Atelier Masomi
The Wallpaper* Architects Directory has turned 20. Conceived in 2000 as our index of emerging architectural talent, this annual listing of promising practices, has, over the years, spanned styles and continents; yet always championing the best and most exciting young studios and showcasing inspiring work with an emphasis on the residential realm. To mark the occasion, in the next months, we will be looking back at some of our over-500 alumni, to catch up about life and work since their participation and exclusively launch some of their latest completions. Drawing on local climate, materials and vernacular, Niamey's new cultural centre by Mariam Kamara will be a valuable hub for the arts in the region, but also feel at one with its environment. Kamara's studio, Atelier Masomi, was first featured in the 2019 Architect Directory.
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Out of Africa: the Graham Foundation investigates sub-Saharan Modernism
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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
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Mariam Kamara takes on the architectural challenges of the future
Nigerien architect Mariam Kamara – tipped by Frida Escobedo as one of 25 creative leaders of the future in Wallpaper’s 25th Anniversary Issue ‘5x5’ project – is the dynamic principle of fast-emerging studio Atelier Masōmī
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Kunlé Adeyemi’s Floating Music Hub kicks off the party in Cape Verde
The Floating Music Hub in Cape Verde, by NLÉ, opens to the public offering a cultural venue like no other
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A new Marrakech museum is bringing Africa’s flourishing art scene home
