Every week Inside Africa takes its viewers on a journey across Africa, exploring the true diversity and depth of different cultures, countries and regions. Follow presenter Errol Barnett on ...

African youths are today positioned where cultural identities intermingle and there is a need to embrace a contemporary style that merges those identities. Black dandyism inspired by Les Sapeurs ...

The Sapeurs of Congo are the world's unlikeliest fashionistas, ... These well-dressed gentlemen aren't African big men slapping each other on the back to celebrate just-consummated deals.

In the two Congos, there’s a cultural movement by the Society of Ambience-Makers and Elegant People (Sape), known as “sapeurs”, who blend fashion, culture and social resistance. Though it ...

Congo’s Sapeurs are having something of a global cultural movement. In addition to a flurry of press coverage and magazine features over the last few years, these distinctive dandies have hit ...

The sapeurs often refer to famous fashion designers by their first names – Yohji, Coco, ... “We African people are still extraneous to the domains of media and fashion, ...

The members of the Society for Ambience and Elegance (Sape) are impossible to overlook. Born in Central Africa at the beginning of the 20th century, the style is now found from Paris to Dubai.

In the early '80s, as African music increasingly made inroads into Europe under the fuzzy catch-all banner of "World Music," Wemba again sat at the helm of this transition.

Every week Inside Africa takes its viewers on a journey across Africa, exploring the true diversity and depth of different cultures, countries and regions. Follow presenter Errol Barnett on ...