Inside the Lagos Atelier Turning Heritage Cloth Into a Global Brand
How one designer built an export business without leaving her neighbourhood.
Section
Culture
Art, fashion, design, food, identity and the movements reshaping how we live and express ourselves.
Entertainment· The Business of Culture
The Nairobi Producers Who Decided to Own the Sound
People· The Dots Interview
“Talent Was Never the Problem. Infrastructure Was.”
Entertainment· The Business of Culture
The Nairobi Producers Who Decided to Own the Sound
A new class of Kenyan beatmakers is trading session fees for publishing splits — and quietly rewriting the economics of East African music.
Business· The Big Picture
Is Nairobi Becoming Africa's Creative Capital — or Just Its Most Expensive?
Rising rents, new funds and a talent boom: the numbers behind the city's cultural ascent.
People· The Dots Interview
“Talent Was Never the Problem. Infrastructure Was.”
Akosua Mensah on building the agency she wished existed when she started.