Our Brands
Five African houses. One common requirement: handmade excellence.
Every home at Kente and Gold has been chosen for a precise reason — not a trend, not a price. A hand, a land, a story.
Dakar, Senegal
Leather goods — Dakar, Senegal
Nene Yaya
African leather works differently. It retains the memory of the hands that touched it.
Two sisters. A workshop. Expertise passed down through generations. Néné Yaya was born out of creative frustration: after years of frequenting international fashion references, they couldn't find what they were looking for in Africa — a bag that embodied both excellent craftsmanship and the depth of an African story. So they created it. Each piece is cut, sewn, and finished by hand — in Dakar, as it has always been done.
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Chemically untreated natural leather
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Artisans identified and paid fairly
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Limited editions—no mass production
"Behind every house you've just discovered, there's a moment when something touched me. A gesture, a material, a way of being."
Mansour
Founder, Kente and Gold
Dakar, Senegal
Wearable Art - Accessories
Nio Far (By Milcos)
"We are together" – Nio Far – two words in Wolof that say it all. Not a brand that imposes itself. A brand that brings people together.
Founded in 2012 in Dakar by the encounter between an engineer and an ancient fabric, Nio Far redefines contemporary African fashion. Milcos draws from Dogon, Manding, and Pulaar cultures to create pieces that convey as much as they adorn.
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Hand-woven and hand-dyed Malian bogolan
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First Senegalese bogolan × leather sneakers
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Each collection results from in-depth cultural research
Dakar, Senegal
Leather Goods — Dakar, Senegal
O2 Créa · Aude Guyon --Graphic Art & Publishing
"A place is more than just coordinates. It's a light, an hour, a memory. Aude Guyon captures them before they fade."
O2 Crea is the graphic design studio of Aude Guyon, an artist based in Dakar who captures Senegal's iconic locations — Pink Lake, Yoff, Soumbedioune Market — in posters and postcards with a vintage yet contemporary aesthetic. Her works don't just document Africa: they celebrate it, with the precision of someone who looks at it with love.
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Original digital creations inspired by iconic African landmarks
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Limited edition posters and postcards
Each house you've just seen was chosen for a specific reason. Not for its fame. For what it says about Africa today.
Mansour
Founder, Kente and Gold
Dakar, Senegal
Incense and Home Rituals
Molaabi
"Before being a perfume, thiouraye is an intention. Molaabi simply gave it a new form."
Molaabi reinterprets thiouraye — a traditional Senegalese incense made from tree resins, aromatic plants, and fragrant roots — with a contemporary, refined aesthetic. What was once passed down from mother to daughter in Dakar households now finds a designer setting, without betraying its soul or origins.
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Artisanal thiouraye, preserved ancestral recipes
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Contemporary design incense burners, handcrafted
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An invitation to incorporate African ritual into everyday living
Dakar, Senegal
Imadi World
"A basket isn't a container. It's a conversation between two hands and a material that comes from the earth."
Founded in Dakar by Fatima Jobe, Imadi transforms the ancestral art of braiding into exceptional objects. The brand exhibited at Maison & Objet Paris—where the whole world comes to seek design excellence.
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Handwoven natural basketry from Senegal
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Local materials, short supply chains, zero waste
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Recognized on the international contemporary design scene