Fashion is not the business you think it is.
The most expensive thing in fashion is not the fabric. Fifteen years inside African fashion manufacturing taught Bridget Ojochide Agba what the industry prefers you never ask about.
Africa does not need its own Met Gala. Here is what it needs.
Africa’s art, fashion, and cultural capital deserve a stage built from African logic, told in an African voice, on African terms. That stage does not exist yet. This is the argument for building it.
How Botswana found diamonds and built a democracy. And Why Nobody talks about it.
The diamonds do not create the corruption. They simply reveal who was always capable of it and give them something worth stealing.
What does Presken Hotel and Chicken Republic have in common?
find the people nobody is building for, and build for them relentlessly until everybody else wishes they had thought of it first.
SHE BUILT A RELIGION AND CALLED IT THERAPY
“Group Therapy is Lagos’s most consistently sold-out event. The more interesting question is why, and what it says about who gets to shape culture from the inside of a continent the world keeps misreading.“– Biola Olaore The architecture matters more than the music, which is already excellent. What Aniko understood, and what most event organizers … Read more
DEAR TIWA, YOU ARE TIWA SAVAGE AND THAT IS YOUR MAGIC!
You see, if you argue with Tiwa when she says she paved the way for the girlieees to dare being that IT girl, you stand the risk of coming off as unwise and I dare say that. Let’s start with her pop breakout song ‘Kele Kele love’. When that song was released, I could not … Read more