#tbt | Q&A: Gold Coast Trading – Designer Emeka Alams
Emeka Alams is the mind behind the fashion label Gold Coast Trading. Seattle-based yet originally hailing from Nigeria, he decided to dedicate his heart and soul to the mother continent’s fashion-sporting cats. His designs borrow from the pride that Africans had in 1444, the year the slave trade started taking its toll. With a heartfelt...
FlashBack | Pieter Hugo Nollywood and the Death of Photography | Issue14
Pieter Hugo is quickly gaining notoriety as Africa’s premier photographer for his reinvention of the representation of Africa to the West. Frequently quoted for declaring the death of photography, Hugo is indicative of a generation whose sensibility is fine-tuned to the delicate role of the photographer, realising that to photograph is by no means to...
