The Folklore, a New York City-based online concept store and wholesale showroom that distributes luxury and emerging designer brands from Africa, has partnered with Orange Mentorship, the educational ...

The Folklore, an online retailer that stocks contemporary pieces by African designers, is now reaching an even wider audience thanks to its latest collaboration with the luxury fashion platform ...

Our Africa's New Wave package celebrates the rich culture and impact of the globe's demographically youngest continent. Through a series of visual stories, we're unpacking the gravity of Africa's ...

The Folklore Group is undertaking a new effort to ensure retailers know exactly where to find and buy products from African and diasporic brands, which many have pledged to carry on their store ...

Obi Nwazota has left his mark on Chicago: He’s an architect and owner of the design firm Orange Skin; he once owned a Wicker Park clothing store and a Nigerian restaurant in Rogers Park. His next ...

Gaining a foothold in today’s fashion market is difficult for any designer. It’s even more difficult for designers in Africa as there haven’t been any established paths to build significant exposure ...

There's something in the water in the new film Nanny. Over two unsettling hours, director Nikyatu Jusu submerges the audience in suffocating night terrors, blending glowing reflections of Black love ...

In a video posted July 9, Matthew Torres, known as The Story Time Guy on Instagram, accused popular European children’s book author Andrew Lang of appropriating elements of African culture and ...

“I realized how sick and tired I was of arguing about whether there should be a black hobbit in Lord of the Rings. African folklore is just as rich, and just as perverse as that shit. We have witches, ...

He also adored “the bawdiness and sexuality” of Shakespeare. “To me the extreme in it was the language, and I’m still blown away by how expansive and raw it is.” The language, he says, is the ...