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Last night Zoë Modiga () unlocked The Vault and let memory, time and truth spill into the room. A beautiful body of work...
24/04/2026

Last night Zoë Modiga () unlocked The Vault and let memory, time and truth spill into the room.

A beautiful body of work, a fitting stage and a moment that felt both intimate and expansive.

Congratulations Zoë on this next chapter!

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23/04/2026

The Vault, unlocked.

In her own words, Zoë Modiga ()steps into this moment not as a fixed version of herself, but as an expansive one, holding her past, present, and becoming all at once.

From finding the courage to be fully seen, to creating without self policing, The Vault is less about revisiting old work and more about freeing it. What emerges is something vulnerable, unkempt, playful, and entirely her.

Set against the backdrop of the Market Theatre’s 50 year legacy, the project finds a home that understands timelessness, experimentation, and return.

Is this a closing chapter or the start of something new?
She’s letting it unfold.

Swipe through for Zoë’s reflections.

📍 Market Theatre

21/04/2026

Redefining how Nigerian culture is viewed worldwide by highlighting the beauty in nostalgia, Nigerian fashion brand, Meji Meji (.co), aims to document the history of Africans to be told by them rather than for them.

With the launch of the Winter 2025/26 Collection, the brand takes inspiration from the typography of Lagos transit, an archive of family photographs, postcards, and handwritten sayings from her grandmother’s house, and the rituals of soul sisterhood, bridging the gap between the African past and a global future. We sat down with founder, Tolu Oye (), to discuss how she’s turning the “Lagos hustle” into wearable history.

View the full interview at www.themanor.africa

20/04/2026

Desiree () is well-known for weaving house rhythms with deep, atmospheric soul overtones. Her latest remix speaks to this idiosyncrasy, creating a cross-generational dialogue with her remix of “Four Women” by the iconic Nina Simone.

“When I was asked to remix it, I knew I wanted to go deeper than the music. To sit with what Nina was actually saying and ask what it still means today, the Fifth Woman is that conversation, for the women we come from and the girls we still carry.”

View the full story at www.themanor.africa

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Design is a conversation across time. When contemporary designers draw from the intelligence of Africa’s rural domestic ...
16/04/2026

Design is a conversation across time. When contemporary designers draw from the intelligence of Africa’s rural domestic landscape, they retrieve a vocabulary embedded in memory and the lived-in logic of things that worked because they had to. Function and feeling are tantamount, carrying a sense of place that holds a design language that no blueprint could replicate.

From Zizipho Poswa () and Andile Dyalvane () to Fadekemi Ogunsanya (.0707), Xanthe Somers (), we look at how artworks can bridge memory and modernity, anchoring space through presence and meaning.

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The work of Thandiwe Muriu () draws from the visual textures of everyday Kenyan life — reworking textiles, fashion and p...
15/04/2026

The work of Thandiwe Muriu () draws from the visual textures of everyday Kenyan life — reworking textiles, fashion and portraiture into something both playful and precise.

In Camo, visibility shifts. Subjects emerge, recede, and reappear — inviting a slower way of looking, one that asks you to pay attention to detail, to identity, to presence.

Visit www.themanor.africa/library to add ‘Camo’ to your collection.

HOMECOMING™ 2026For its 9th edition, the festival returned bigger, sharper, and more expansive than ever. Across Lagos, ...
10/04/2026

HOMECOMING™ 2026

For its 9th edition, the festival returned bigger, sharper, and more expansive than ever. Across Lagos, sport, music and community moved as one.

The HOMECOMING Cup once again took centre stage, with teams from across the culture stepping onto a reimagined pitch by Slawn (), where football became both competition and canvas.

Elsewhere, WAF ()brought the city’s skate community together for a high-energy takeover, extending the programme beyond the expected and into lived street culture.

From the Summit to the streets, every moment felt intentional. A coming together of worlds, voices and disciplines.

Nine years in, and it only gets bigger 💫

Lagos’ creative pulse meets global exchange for 2026 💫A capsule collection where each piece carries a story of movement...
10/04/2026

Lagos’ creative pulse meets global exchange for 2026 💫

A capsule collection where each piece carries a story of movement, identity and collaboration, anchored in community and shaped in real time.

Available exclusively at the HOMECOMING Concept Store. A moment you can wear.

Heirlooms aren’t just inherited, they’re made. In a time of fast fashion and faster trends, these designers are choosing...
09/04/2026

Heirlooms aren’t just inherited, they’re made.

In a time of fast fashion and faster trends, these designers are choosing to slow things down: drawing from ancestral techniques, reworking tradition and crafting pieces designed to live many lives. From Fulani embroidery and Tsonga silhouettes to Moroccan babouche and horn jewellery, each piece carries memory, meaning and the imprint of human hands.

Swipe through to discover 5 African designers shaping what we’ll pass on and then join the conversation: what does an heirloom look like to you?

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Introducing the Air Max Plus by founder , the first Nigerian woman to design a signature Nike silhouette. Built on over...
04/04/2026

Introducing the Air Max Plus by founder , the first Nigerian woman to design a signature Nike silhouette. Built on over a decade of shared history, the collaboration comes full circle, evolving a relationship that began with Nike as one of her earliest creative partners. A full-circle cultural moment.

03/04/2026

In conversation with Tems, founder of Leading Vibe Initiative, in Johannesburg, on unlearning, moving with intention, and why African artists are shaping the moment in their own language.

Watch the full conversation.

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