Cyrus Kabiru: Pandashuka

Kenyan artist Cyrus Kabiru creates fantastical sculptural objects from recycled materials, scraps, and trash. Growing up in the Kibera slums of Kenya’s capital city, Kabiru confronted waste every morning, recalling that he woke to a view of a trash pile out his bedroom window. Using his own inventiveness as an antidote to the limited options […]

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Afropolitan Design

‘There is an image, an idea of Africa that lives deep in human imagination… It is alive within each of us on a primordial level, inexplicable yet undeniable.’ – Maya Angelou Two recent design exhibitions in Europe have been exploring African journeys of selection from the continent’s indisputably magnificent visual heritage, whether of functional design […]

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