Inaugural edition: 300+ submissions, 40 countries, 41-person jury across 18 nationalities under Bibi Seck. Winners include the Bidi Bidi Performing Arts Centre (270,000 South Sudanese refugees, Yumbe District), Ndebele beading as sculpture, a Vodoun temple reinterpreted, Keiskamma embroidery turned homeware. Ceremony during African Design Week.
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BENCHMARK IN THE 50 · Black Film Archive (editorial-taste — a field building its own record-keeping instead of waiting to be catalogued)