2026

Nyugen E. Smith on Stranger Faces, Memory, Return and Rethinking Restitution

STRANGER FACES 12 (After Serpell), 2026 Charcoal, gesso, graphite powder, Zambian soil, pastel, and collage on paper. 12.5 x 9 inches (32 x 23 cm)

Sustaining the Otherwise is an ambitious transnational research and curatorial programme unfolding across Africa and Europe throughout 2026. Bringing together artists, institutions and thinkers across multiple sites, the programme expands the conversation around restitution beyond the physical return of cultural objects. Instead, it considers restitution as a lived, embodied and relational practice—one shaped by memory, […]

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Africa Is Finally Designing the Stadiums That Will Welcome the World: The African Architects Behind Morocco’s 2030 FIFA World Cup Vision

For generations, Africa has gifted the world extraordinary footballers. From Roger Milla’s dazzling runs in Italy, George Weah’s historic Ballon d’Or triumph, and Didier Drogba’s leadership, to the brilliance of Mohamed Salah, Achraf Hakimi and Victor Osimhen, the continent has helped shape football’s global identity through talent, resilience and passion. Yet while Africa has transformed

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Between Ritual and Resonance: Rana El Nemr on The Sugarcane Choir, Material Memory, and Listening Beyond the Visible at the Venice Biennale 2026

For more than two decades, Egyptian artist Rana El Nemr has cultivated one of the most intellectually expansive and materially sensitive practices in contemporary African art. Working across photography, installation, moving image, sculpture and research, her work consistently resists fixed readings, instead inviting viewers into spaces where memory, perception, ritual and embodied knowledge unfold through

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African Artists Command Art Basel 2026

From Ibrahim Mahama’s Monumental Münsterplatz Commission to Major Booth Presentations, African Artists Were Impossible to Ignore At Art Basel 2026, African and African diasporic artists were not simply present. They shaped the fair’s visual, intellectual, public and market conversation. Across the main Galleries sector, Premiere, Statements, Feature, Kabinett, Parcours, Unlimited and the city’s public programme,

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From the Census to the Senses: Carina Tenewaa Kanbi on Reframing African Cities Through the Atlas of Uncertainty

Across African cities, movement is often narrated through crisis: migration as rupture, informality as failure, rapid urban growth as disorder. Atlas of Uncertainty begins from a different position. Bringing together more than sixty social scientists, architects, cartographers, writers and artists, the transdisciplinary project examines how mobility shapes urban life across Accra, Nairobi and Johannesburg, asking

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Mbamba: Botswana’s Newest Luxury Safari Camp Brings Timeless Safari Elegance to the Okavango Delta

In the remote northern reaches of Botswana’s Okavango Delta, where floodplains, lagoons, grasslands and ancient islands converge to create one of Africa’s most extraordinary ecosystems, a new safari destination is redefining luxury through heritage, storytelling and wilderness immersion. Mbamba, one of the newest additions to Botswana’s luxury safari landscape, opened in April 2025 as a

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Inside the Obama Presidential Center, Two African Artists Bring History, Memory and Hope Into America’s Newest Civic Landmark

Installation view of ‘Uprising of the Sun’ by Julie Mehretu at The Obama Presidential Center Museum

When the Obama Presidential Center opens its doors on Chicago’s South Side, visitors will encounter more than a museum dedicated to the legacy of the United States’ first African American president. They will enter a cultural institution shaped by artists from across the world, including two of the most influential contemporary artists of African origin:

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Egyptian Photographer Mariam El Gendy Launches Jihan, A New Paris Concept Store Celebrating African and West Asian Design

In the heart of Paris’s historic Le Marais district, a new cultural retail destination is reimagining what a concept store can be. Founded by Egyptian photographer and creative director Mariam El Gendy alongside cultural strategist Youssef El Sayed, Jihan has opened as a multidisciplinary platform dedicated to contemporary design, fashion, and cultural production from Africa

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Africa Basel 2026: The Artists, Conversations and Cultural Infrastructure Shaping the Future of Contemporary African Art

Every June, Basel becomes the meeting point of the international art world. Collectors, museum directors, curators, artists, journalists, academics, foundations, galleries, and cultural institutions converge on the Swiss city for a week that influences conversations, exhibitions, acquisitions, and cultural agendas across the globe. Yet while much attention is directed toward the commercial powerhouses of Art

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Carrying Home Across Oceans: Anina Major on Memory, Migration, and the Making of Tender Seedlings

Anina Major | Photo credit Blair J Meadows | Courtesy The Artist and Larkin Durey

For many artists, the journey away from home becomes a story of departure. For Bahamian ceramic artist Anina Major, it has become a lifelong investigation into what remains. Across more than a decade of practice, Major has established herself as one of the most compelling voices working in contemporary ceramics today, creating sculptures that examine

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