
When The Sartorialist went to Johannesburg
In South Africa, the most innovative fashion is not on the runway or at some "Fashion Week," but on the street.

In South Africa, the most innovative fashion is not on the runway or at some "Fashion Week," but on the street.

Art South Africa me asked to pick my "Best Six;" basically my "favorite (six) things from the last six months."


The artist Hassan Hajjaj frames his portraits of ordinary Moroccans with a neat shelf crammed with 7 Up and Coca-Cola cans, symbols of a burgeoning import market and aspiration.

The writer revisits his notes from 2005 when he visited Acholiland, the site of a conflict between the LRA and Uganda's military.

A group of black women, from Africa and its diaspora, decide to mess with Paris Fashion Week. Was it worth it? Did anyone care?


Cedric Nunn's photography reflects the complex emotions of his black South African subjects, their humanity, dignity, in very personal terms.

The photographer Aida Muluneh's work explores Ethiopia via identity, personal journey, and family nostalgia after a 30-year absence.

Guinean-Swiss photographer Namsa Leuba deftly "merges" aesthetic traditions.


By far the best place to follow Malawian news and politics is social media app, Twitter. It can be relied upon to be the very first place where Malawi’s breaking news gets to the rest of us.



Kaleidoscope magazine has done an "Africa" issue; it wants to walk a fine line between identity politics and universalism.


Mary Beth Meehan, an American photographer in the U.S. northeast photographs marginal people: immigrants and poor people, both black and white.