Awut Atak, Author at TRUE Africa

26 December 2024

Awut Atak

Former staff writer at TRUE Africa

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Scarification, George Orwell and kimonos... Find out more about Yemzi's SS17 collection

Scarification, George Orwell and kimonos... British-Nigerian designer Elizabeth-Yemi Akingbade's SS17 Yemzi collection is full of different influences. ...

By Awut Atak

2026: the exhibition that shows what African masculinity could look like in 10 y...

18 July, 2016

Does 'African architecture' exist? This Rwandan architect thinks so...

28 June, 2016

Cameroonian stylist Al Malonga was wearing headwraps before they became cool...

16 May, 2016

Talwst: why PoC artists are creating the best work right now...

11 May, 2016

Photographer Campbell Addy's Niijournal is going to 'educate not irritate' you a...

1 May, 2016

Naija Beta director Arthur Musah on 'the value of homecoming and the power of yo...

30 April, 2016

Fashion from Casablanca to Johannesburg at Fashion Cities Africa

Two years in the making and the UK's first exhibition focused on contemporary African fashion has arrived. A team...

By Awut Atak

Designer Amine Bendriouich: Arab, Moroccan, Tuareg, African... and student of the Now

By Awut Atak

Jollof quinoa, yam tortilla, bean porridge, plantain pancakes and chin chin cheesecake: the first Nigerian tapas lounge

By Awut Atak

Francisco Vidal on striving for utopia and what it means to be a political artis...

4 March, 2016

Olympic hopeful Joshua Buatsi may be boxing for Team GB but he's still a Black S...

29 February, 2016

Arima Ederra on Ethiopian love songs and new EP Temporary Fixes...

24 February, 2016

TRUE LOVES: a look at 7 artists exhibiting at Dak'Art Biennale 2016...

1 February, 2016

Ajak Deng and Maria Borges kill it in 'Africa Rising' shoot...

13 January, 2016

Petite Noir's creative director Rochelle Nembhard on her bold and futuristic vis...

4 December, 2015

Billie Zangewa on expressing her black femininity and being a mother and artist

Billie Zangewa is a Malawian artist who works with fabrics, mostly silk, to create intricate tapestries. Billie has a bachelor'...

By Awut Atak

TRUE LOVES: 'Making Africa' at the Guggenheim Bilbao

Making Africa – A Continent of Contemporary Design is opening on October 30 at the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain. The exhibition...

By Awut Atak

New African cinema at this film festival...

9 October, 2015

4 photographers exhibiting at LagosPhoto 2015...

7 October, 2015

TRUE LOVES: end your month at Lagos Fashion and Design Week...

6 October, 2015

TRUE LOVES: Contemporary Art from Africa & The Diaspora auction...

4 October, 2015

Okzharp and Manthe Ribane have just released their first track together...

2 October, 2015

TRUE LOVES: Vincent Michéa's gold-drenched portraits...

2 October, 2015

TRUE LOVES: IAM magazine’s first art festival (get yourself down to Douala)

Eleven artists, six fashion designers and twenty art experts are coming to Douala for a new festival. Intense Art Magazine (...

By Awut Atak

TRUE LOVES: DJ Firmeza's first solo album Alma Do Meu Pai

By Awut Atak

TRUE LOVES: this business-minded teen farming crickets in the DRC

By Awut Atak

TRUE LOVES: Pan African Space Station's residency at Fondation Cartier from Frid...

17 September, 2015

Nozinja the man bringing Shangaan electro to the world...

15 September, 2015

TRUE LOVES: the FNB Joburg Art Fair is back for another year...

10 September, 2015

TRUE LOVES: photographer Zanele Muholi's 'We Live In Fear' exhibition...

10 September, 2015

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