Very Mad Films calls itself a place where “MAD means Masterful.” In Seyifunmi Makinde’s hands, that sounds less like a slogan and more like a working method
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For Emeka Onyeziri a.k.a Emeka of Lagos, getting dressed does not stop at the neckline. Clothes establish the mood, but hair can distort it, complete it, or become the entire story.
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Battle of Jollof does not settle the argument. It makes the argument the event. Six editions in, the festival has transformed one of West Africa’s favorite rivalries into a high-energy meeting point for culture, competition and community.
In Tina Akerele’s world, a shoe is never just the final object. It is the sum of touch, material, memory, limitation and instinct. Leather carries the evidence of the hand that shaped it, irregularities are allowed to become part of the language, and every form is considered not only for how it looks, but for how it feels to move through the world in it.
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A Chinasa Martins look rarely whispers. It arrives with volume, attitude and the kind of confidence that makes “too much” feel like exactly enough. Behind the silhouettes is a designer building her own visual language in real time, one oversized idea at a time.
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When Nigerian-born sisters Adeola and Ronke Jane Adelakun could not find the creative spaces they wanted to enter, they stopped waiting for an invitation. What began as one sold-out evening in Manchester has grown into a movement built around visibility, access and making Black creativity economically sustainable.
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Built by brothers Sanjo and Mayowa Lawal, BrothersLawee sits somewhere between fashion label, art project and family archive, transforming the fabrics, images and cultural references they grew up around into things you can wear, collect and live with.
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Some people travel to escape. Niyi Fagbemi travels to remember, preserve and prove that Africa has always been more beautiful, complex and alive than the world was taught to believe.
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Flyers that feel like artefacts. Logos that become signatures. Concert screens, posters, campaigns and identities that make you understand a brand before anybody explains it. For Michael Umoru, better known as FallOfMichael, graphic design was never meant to stay inside one frame.
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Not quite a club. Not simply a store. Not exactly a gallery. Tayo Okoya’s Fantasy Ikoyi is defining something Lagos
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