Afri-tectural Digest
Kemide LawsonA space for thinking deeply about home. Afri-tectural Digest explores homes as memory, resistance and joy. Rooted in Black home life, it is relevant for anyone curious about deeper, ancestral ways of living and how they can apply to today.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 21 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 15 days ago |
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Four Black Heirloom Pieces You Should Collect
The recent announcement by Wedgwood, the historic purveyor of fine bone china, that they would be discontinuing their Harlem Toile line with immediate effect stopped me in my tracks. I was in the rather pleasant years-long process of collec...
What four masterpieces reveal about the Black home
In this latest Afri-tectural Digest, I want to share four works of art that have shaped how I think about the Black home. Each piece captures a specific element of the Black home experience. They are all particularly unusual and thought-pro...
The Black Madonna in Paris
My mother and I recently travelled to Paris to celebrate British Mother’s Day. We go to Paris pretty often — for the food, the beauty and to enjoy the rituals we’ve built there over time. But this time, we made a detour.
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I Just Wrote The Book About Home I Always Wanted To Read
The Black Home: Architecture and Interiors Across Continents and Centuries
Published by RIBA, September 1st 2026
It was author and literary icon Toni Morrison who once wrote: “If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been w...
The Architecture of Black Girl Magic
In the first essay of this relaunch, ‘What Makes a Black home?’ I shared my thinking on what a “Black Home’ actually meant. I explained how it is a manifestation - within the home - of powerful and timeless elements, elements which I call A...
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I write about the Black home—its histories, objects, and ancestral intelligence. Author of The Black Home (forthcoming 2026) and co-founder of The Cornrow.
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