For Selly Raby Kane, Dakar has always been more than home. “It’s central in the things I create,” the 32-year-old artist and fashion designer says of the Senegalese capital. “It’s a huge source of ...

Fashion shows almost universally conjure up images of a catwalk, but off the coast of Senegal’s capital Dakar Saturday, ...

In case you've faced some hurdles solving the clue, Senegalese fashion designer who created Black Fashion Week, we've got the answer for you. Crossword puzzles offer a fantastic opportunity to engage ...

When I caught up with Adama Amanda Ndiaye, the designer was prepping for the latest installment of Dakar Fashion Week. To be exact, she was getting her makeup done for the opening dinner that would ...

This season, Chanel's Métier d'Art 2023 fashion show has touched down in Dakar, the capital of Senegal, making Chanel the first European fashion house to stage a show in Sub-Saharan Africa. In ...

Visiting West Africa felt like a special calling. As a Haitian whose ancestors derived from the region, absorbing the history in person would be a spiritual rite of passage, I told myself. The fashion ...

Senegalese producer Ibaaku’s “Djula Dance” is a prime example of Afrofuturism as it stands today: an eclectic, electronic opus to a fantasy alien attack. What started as an accompanying soundtrack to ...

Selly Raby Kane is eyeing me through a pair of bright-pink, frameless glasses. Senegal’s most famous fashion designer has clomped across her graffiti-decorated studio in black biker boots to come and ...

Skin bleaching may cause cancer, expert says. DAKAR, Senegal, Jan. 12, 2009— -- To see the effects of racism based on skin color most clearly, one should go to the developing world. In richer ...

Senegal's exquisite gold jewelry — and the complicated history of the women who wore it — are getting their due at an exhibit at the Smithsonian's Museum of African Art. For hundreds of years, ...