For Selly Raby Kane, Dakar has always been more than home. “It’s central in the things I create,” the 32-year-old artist and fashion designer says of the Senegalese capital. “It’s a huge source of ...

In her latest video 'Spirit', off her Lion King: The Gift Album, Beyonce is clad in a variety of designers but one African designer has stolen Queen B's heart. Meet the Senegalese label that has made ...

Senegalese producer Ibaaku’s “Djula Dance” is a prime example of Afrofuturism as it stands today: an eclectic, electronic opus to a fantasy alien attack. What started as an accompanying soundtrack to ...

Visiting West Africa felt like a special calling. As a Haitian whose ancestors derived from the region, absorbing the history in person would be a spiritual rite of passage, I told myself. The fashion ...

This season, Chanel's Métier d'Art 2023 fashion show has touched down in Dakar, the capital of Senegal, making Chanel the first European fashion house to stage a show in Sub-Saharan Africa. In ...

In a second-hand shop in the suburbs of Senegal's capital, Seynabou Sarr is inundated with orders days before West Africa's largest Muslim festival of Tabaski – the West African name for Eid. Sarr, 30 ...

September has been a dizzying month for fashion editors, influencers, and buyers—but perhaps most so for Maty Fall Diba. The IMG model and relative newcomer walked in an impressive 37 Spring Summer ...

Organisers of this year's Dakar Fashion Week have a message for the world: sustainability is in style. Forced by coronavirus restrictions to hold the show outside, models emerged beside the trunk of ...

Skin bleaching may cause cancer, expert says. DAKAR, Senegal, Jan. 12, 2009— -- To see the effects of racism based on skin color most clearly, one should go to the developing world. In richer ...

Selly Raby Kane is eyeing me through a pair of bright-pink, frameless glasses. Senegal’s most famous fashion designer has clomped across her graffiti-decorated studio in black biker boots to come and ...