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At 74, the grande dame of Ghanaian couture is not retiring
Auntie Efua Boateng has dressed three generations of brides. She is just getting started on the fourth.
By Amara Okafor
People
The designers, models, editors and executives shaping African fashion — profiled up close.
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The model who walked every Dakar show this season
Nineteen shows in six days: a week in the life of Awa Cissé.
By Nadia Mensah
People
Two founders, one showroom and a bet on Accra
By Front Row Staff
People
Funke Aramide and the second life of adire
From an Abeokuta dye yard to the order books of Paris — how one Lagos label is rewriting the price of African cloth.
By Amara Okafor
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PeopleAug 13
The designer who dresses Lagos without showing in Paris
Femi Aluko built a cult following from a two-room atelier in Surulere. He says the runway can wait.
By Amara Okafor
PeopleAug 12
The stylist who turned church clothes into a movement
Sunday best, remixed for the street — and now for the runway.
By Kemi Eze
PeopleAug 9
Meet the casting director rewriting who gets to walk
Open calls in six cities, no comp cards required.
By Nadia Mensah
PeopleAug 7
A day in the atelier with Nairobi’s most patient designer
Wanjiru Kamau makes twelve garments a year. Every one is spoken for.
By Chidera Nwosu
PeopleAug 5
Fatou Sarr on modeling, money, and going home
The runway veteran opens up ahead of her memoir, Walking Home, out this month.
By Tola Adeyemi
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PeopleAug 2
The two sisters building a bag empire from Marrakech
Maison Tazi started with one bench and one hide. Now the waitlist runs to March.
By Sefi Bello
PeopleJul 30
Why the editor of Accra’s boldest magazine walked away
After eight years and forty covers, Nana Adjoa Asante wanted a different kind of influence.
By Amara Okafor
PeopleJul 27
The last indigo master of his line takes an apprentice
In Abeokuta, a sixty-year practice finds its next pair of hands.
By Yusuf Diallo