African-inspired patterns and textures are making a bold statement in modern interiors, blending heritage with contemporary aesthetics. From geometric mud cloths to earthy color palettes, these ...

Mud cloth patterns are characterized by geometric shapes and symbols, each of which has a meaning. The patterns are usually ...

The first time Nana Quagraine googled “African design” was in 2018. She had just launched 54kibo, an online retailer of contemporary African home decor, and noticed that unlike “Scandinavian design” ...

Every business leader knows his or her success depends on a viable and sustainable market. That’s what the young Laduma Mgxokolo saw in front of him as a student working on a thesis project at Nelson ...

An architect in Southern California wanted to create a larger home for her family. She was inspired, in part, by West African textiles and a dress she wore as a teenager. The architect Susan Nwankpa ...

“She combines [Pop] with source material from Africa, with African design and African pattern, and out of this she synthesizes a new body of work,” Gaither says. Arriving at her late mature style, ...

Beauty and ingenuity can be found around every corner of a new fashion exhibition in Chicago. One mannequin wears a stunning, contemporary piece fashioned primarily from cowrie shells. Another models ...

I’m a folklorist, not an historian. My kind typically uses the past to help understand the present, rather than treating the past as subject matter in its own right. So I find myself turning Black ...

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