Issue 19
umswenko ✿ Africa
Features
- Wissa-Sophy: Back to the woven garden Passent Nossair
- 25,000 knots: The hands that make Baba Tree baskets ✿
- Fulu Muziki ✿ Kinshasa noisicians + eco-culturists Gary Warner
- editorial ✿
- Isifociya: The revival of Zulu adornment that protects and beautifies Khanya Mthethwa
- Urgent Adornment in South Africa Beverley Price
- Izandla Zethu: Fine jewellery with what’s at hand ✿
- Ordentelikheid: South African baroque jewellery Taryn Sadé Joseph
- New Zulu beads to be worn with pride Mbuso Zondi
- I wear letters from the past Lara Daryl Landsberg
- The Eastern Cape made visible through jewellery Joani Groenewald
- Litema, the pride of a Mosotho woman’s home ‘Matsooana Sekokotoana
- Moffat Takadiwa: The art of small things Jenan Taylor
- Quarterly Essay ✿ Moffat Takadiwa: The art of small things Jenan Taylor
- Iziqhaza: Designs that open your ears Hlengiwe Dube
- [Re:]Entanglements in Nigeria ✿
- My father was an elephant: Clay dreams in Nigeria Ngozi Omeje
- “Only room for one in the house”: My Ankyianpoma language sticks from Ghana Claire Dale
- Simb, or the rise and fall of the Fake Lion in Senegal Joseph Ndione
- Ndomo: Beauty from mud in Mali Rebecca Hoyes
- Egypt reclaims niello: A craft for kings and sultans Passent Nossair
- Kultur-All Makaan: A cool place for African warmth Jude Anderson
- Muhubo Suleiman ✿ A home within a home Kevin Murray
- Nyibol Deng ✿ A recycled life ✿
- Life in a boma Stephanie Brookes
- Stepping out: Africa Fashion Week Middle East Ansie van der Walt