Synthetic Ancestors
A Kigali studio is training models on family archives, and thinking hard about what they refuse to generate.
NEW ISSUE · JUNE 2026
FEATURE · MAGAZINE LAUNCH
Subway AfricaLaunches Magazine
A Benin City foundry is casting new bronzes, and rewriting the terms on which they leave the city.
By Uche Osadebe · 9 min read
Featured
ALL FEATURES →SCULPTURE · NAIROBI
Clay Has Memory
Wangari Njeri throws pots that keep a hundred years of quiet. Don't call them vessels.
IN CONVERSATION · DAKAR
Curating The Diaspora
She's shrinking the distance between Dakar and everywhere else, one impossible show at a time.
The Summer Issue
Heat Has A Memory
A photographer chases the hottest light in the Sahel and finds the desert full of people.
Concrete & Cassava
What Lagos builds in concrete, and what it refuses to forget.
The Midnight Sun Sessions
Field recordings from the island where the night never quite goes quiet.
Recent
PAINTING · MARRAKECH
Notes On Blue
The Archive Talks Back
DIGITAL · KIGALI
Synthetic Ancestors
Cloth As Manifesto
FILM · KINSHASA
The River Keeps Score
Bronze Futures
Podcast & Series
EP.07 · 48 MIN
In the Studio with Wangari Njeri
EP.06 · 52 MIN
What the Archive Remembers
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Exhibitions
Near You
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Code & Clay
31 Project, Lagos
02 Jul to 30 Aug · ~0 km away
Bronze Futures
Nubuke Foundation, Accra
Ongoing · ~410 km away
Cloth as Manifesto
Centre Soleil, Dakar
Until 28 Aug · ~2,448 km away
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