African designers defy cliches and ‘come of age’
African designers are fast re-defining styles emerging from the continent as they defy stereotypes and move beyond outsiders’ cliched ideas of how Africans dress.
African designers are fast re-defining styles emerging from the continent as they defy stereotypes and move beyond outsiders’ cliched ideas of how Africans dress.
Eleven years ago, Farida Bano was circumcised by an aunt on a bunk bed in her family home at the end of her 10th birthday party.
One came from the Philippines with mechanical wings, another from Mexico in a rhinestoned Mayan headdress, and one from Finland simply wrapped in a sauna towel.
I was very excited when, in our meeting of the Administrative Council of Communio Internationalis Benedictinarum (CIB), the international association of Benedictine abbesses and prioresses, it was decided that our conference this year would be in West Africa—Burkina Faso, Togo, Ghana and Benin!
Sitting at the northwestern corner of the African continent, with the Strait of Gibraltar separating it from Spain, is the kingdom of Morocco, ruled by a king with such vast
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