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Art & Creativity

Music, art, design and the creative process, and what making things reveals about the people who make them.

Afriart Gallery at Art X Lagos 2022, with work by Sungi Mlengeya and Henry Mzili Mujunga. Photograph: Cinnamon aag23, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

No. 019Art & Creativity
Did We Make the Most of Afrobeats?
I sometimes wonder if we made the most of the Afrobeats movement.
Tomiwa Ayandele1 November 20262 min read
No. 004Art & Creativity
“Sometimes I Feel Like I Am Spinning Plates and the Plates Are About to Fall. But Somehow, They Don’t Fall.”
I started listening to Show Dem Camp in 2018, somewhere in the middle of university, when I needed music that felt like it was thinking. Most of what was on every playlist at the time was loud and fast. SDC was slow…
Tomiwa Ayandele11 May 20263 min read

Did We Make the Most of Afrobeats?

“Sometimes I Feel Like I Am Spinning Plates and the Plates Are About to Fall. But Somehow, They Don’t Fall.”