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Promoters said no one would buy a ticket for SWANA music. Nooriyah booked a room for 175 to find out. It sold out immediately. Today, Middle of Nowhere holds 5,000.
Tectonics continues as we meet the DJ building a global dance floor.
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Roli Scott promised herself she would exhibit at the next KAFART. In 2026, she keeps it, with paintings on women's labour, solidarity, and the traditional hairstyles we've learned to dismiss. #KAFART26
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For KAFART 2026, Hezekiah Obidare (@hezekiahobidare ) shows three canvases from In the Blossom of My Heritage, and asks what we owe to what we inherit. #KAFART26
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A cracked pot still proves something was once held. For KAFART 2026 (@kafart_ng ), Benjamin Philip draws on that idea in pastel and charcoal, tracing the women, bodies, and vessels that keep memory alive. #KAFART26
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A mother, a hibiscus, a Sunday afternoon. For KAFART 2026, Ezinwanne Umerah (@EzinwanneUmerah ) turns old magazine pages and leftover Ankara into collages about the quiet gestures through which love is passed down. #KAFART26
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A bride's fragrance. A mother's clay pots. For KAFART 2026, Muniba Maiwada paints the traditions we are quietly letting go, and asks what disappears with them. #KAFART26
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Hands, clay vessels and hibiscus flowers become records of cultural memory in Basheera Abdulsalam’s Hands That Fed Us. For KAFART26, the painter explores the everyday rituals through which food, care and tradition pass between generations.#KAFART26
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Samson Amidu turns to the quiet labour of motherhood in Echoes of Motherhood, stitching and binding quilted canvases that reflect the work of holding families together. He shares more on what he brings to #KAFART26
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Carton was made to protect, then thrown away. For KAFART 2026, Victor Ishaya builds it back into figures that ask what we hold onto and what holds us back. #ArtistSpotlight #KAFART26
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Paul Ayihawu waits months for an idea to be ready. For KAFART 2026 (@kafart_ng ), he weaves silk, raffia, and jute with Nsibidi symbols, asking what renewal looks like without forgetting where we come from. #KAFART26
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A woman, a clay pot, an aloe vera plant. Esther Nnaji paints the healing knowledge women pass down, and what we lose when we stop noticing it. #KAFART26
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His grandmother was a potter in Inyi. Now Chinonso Eze shapes clay into a record of traditional African hairstyles for KAFART 2026, and asks what we lose as these traditions fade. #KAFART26
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For KAFART 2026, Damilola Adewole crochets the fragility of human life, one loop at a time. We talked to her about art as ministry, Yoruba riddles, and what we carry after we're gone. #KAFART26
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For KAFART 2026 (@kafart_ng ), Zaria-raised artist Adams Abba paints the body as a vessel for love, memory, and inheritance. We spoke with him about Transcending Boundaries, In Full Bloom, and what we choose to hold on to. #KAFART26 #ToHaveAndToHold
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She once traced the wealth of ultra-rich banking clients. Now, she’s taking her shapewear brand from London to Beverly Hills.
In Issue 5: Tectonics, we meet Snatched by Laura founder Laura Alicia Jareño, who is building an international beauty & wellness brand on her own terms.
Some shifts happen out of sight. For Maame Blue, it’s memory, and what a family carries without saying. In a feature from Issue 5: Tectonics, the author of The Rest of You talks process, perseverance, and her search for “real human emotion.”
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Danfo culture has lived in Lagos's art and music for years. Opeyemi Adeniran (@eureka_seamless), a Berlin-based engineer, decided tech could claim it too and built Lagos Run, a browser game that put 90,000+ people behind the wheel in under a week.
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He Choreographed for Beyoncé. Won an Olivier Award. Now building a platform like no other for artists.
For Issue 5, we sit down with Ivan Michael Blackstock on TRAPLORD, CRXSS PLATFXRM, neurodiversity, vulnerability, and turning fear into fuel.
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A billion dollars. 1,300 works. One loud case: comic books, illustration, and cinema deserve the same respect as painting and sculpture. The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art opened this week in LA. Catch other exciting updates on this week's #CultureDrop.
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