The African Imaginary
The African Imaginary, Robyn Alexander, Georgia LetschertCelebrating creativity born and raised on the continent. We curate and produce across four areas: Podcast, Books, Festivals and Music.
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Book reviews: July 2026
Contemporary fiction (Diaspora / Ghana)
Before We Hit the Ground by Selali Fiamanya
R295 from The Book Lounge
How much can we truly know about the people we love? Contrarily, how much of us do we let them see? Selali Fiamanya’s B...
Sunny Dolat: ‘Life is led by questions’
Sunny Dolat. Photo by Gary van Wyk
The first time I set eyes on Sunny Dolat was in 2015, in the lobby of an Antwerp hotel as we set off to join a round-table for the Flanders Fashion Institute. I’d just co-founded Nataal magazine and he’d...
Episode 6: Sunny Dolat | The African Imaginary Podcast
Sunny Dolat is one of Africa’s leading fashion thinkers, working as a curator, stylist, creative director and production designer. Since co-founding Nairobi’s Nest Collective and publishing the pivotal book Not African Enough, he has produc...
How should African creatives work with AI?
African musicians made the electric guitar their own – can the continent’s creatives do the same with Gen-AI? Photo by Melvin Darrell on Unsplash.
For those who live in the creative world, the seductive potential of AI is twofold. There’s...
Book reviews: June 2026
Contemporary fiction (South Africa)
Fabrics of Love by Lebo Mazibuko
R330 from Exclusive Books
Based in the dawn of the 2000s in South Africa, Lebo Mazibuko’s Fabrics of Love tells the interwoven stories of the Ntoi family, creat...
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