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Kente, adinkra, the northern fugu smock and the kaba and slit are four distinct Ghanaian traditions with different regions, meanings and occasions. A practical guide.
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The Owambe Economy: What A Nigerian Party Really Costs
A Lagos wedding is a logistics operation, a fashion cycle and a redistribution system running at once. Here is how the money actually moves.
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The Last Hour of Lagos Light
Between 6 and 7pm the city changes register. We followed four traders, a tailor and a bus conductor through the hour that holds Lagos together.
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A family in Bonwire has woven the same cloth for six generations. The pattern is a document, and it is being read again by a new market.
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The Lagos studio that refuses to sell abroad first
A gallery keeps its debut shows at home. The market disagrees, loudly.
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Aso-ebi economics: what a wedding really costs
Six families, one spreadsheet, and the etiquette nobody writes down.
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The palace archivist keeping succession honest
In a royal house outside Ibadan, one woman holds three centuries of records.
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A kitchen in Accra rewriting the jollof argument
Not a rivalry piece. A cook, a rice supplier and a technique that changed the plate.
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Living small in Nairobi's new towers
Design, rent and the daily practice of a city building upward faster than it builds services.
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