The Design Issue explores how creativity across Africa and its diaspora is reshaping aesthetics, craft, and urban life. From experimental fashion ateliers in Ouagadougou and community-led urbanism in Cape Town and Medellín, to fictional narratives, visual poetry, and multidisciplinary designers redefining African identity, the issue captures a continent in motion, bold, resourceful, and self-authored. Through profiles, reportage, and vivid visual storytelling, it celebrates the makers, thinkers, and dreamers designing their lives and their cities by intention rather than default.

The Food Issue travels through African food culture in all its depth, from Nairobi’s dynamic restaurant scene and Abidjan’s beloved Allocodrome to the sacred culinary rituals of Canchungo. It highlights diaspora chefs reinventing classic dishes, examines the politics of seeds and food sovereignty, and celebrates innovators working with indigenous ingredients. Blending intimate storytelling with vivid photography, the issue captures how food on the continent and in its diaspora is memory, ritual, creativity, and community.

FIELDS: CLANS is a meditation on belonging. It journeys through scarified faces in Abidjan, Inuit tattoo revivals in the Arctic, the mystical brotherhoods of Senegal, and the micro-republics of Vilnius asking what it means to recognise one another in a fragmented world. Through photography, essays, and intimate reportage, this issue traces the invisible ties that hold communities together, from ancestral markings to modern tribes of art, faith, and resistance. Edited by Saran Koly, CLANS is both documentary and mirror, a field guide to identity, solidarity, and the quiet power of collective memory.

FIELDS: MIGRATIONS is a journey through movement, voluntary, forced, chosen, or inherited. From South Sudanese artist Atong Atem’s layered portraits of identity in exile to the haunting testimonies of Canada’s residential school survivors and the story of ex-Guantánamo detainees rebuilding their lives in Uruguay, this issue captures the politics and poetry of displacement. It looks at what we carry, what we lose, and what remakes us when we cross borders, geographical, emotional, and generational. This issue speaks to all migrants, dreamers, and border-walkers who refuse to be reduced to papers or passports, insisting that migration is not a crisis but a condition of being human.

Upon its arrival in the United States and Europe, bananas rapidly formed an ubiquitous presence not only in the twentieth century marketplace, but also in popular culture. 

It is about documenting the beauty of being black. We have grown up believing that being beautiful is being light skin and women keep trying to make themselves lighter to conform to the perceptions in society.