Table of Contents

Foreword, Tristram Hunt -- Foreword, Bonnie Greer -- Introduction, Christine Checinska -- I -- Liberation and Post-Independence Fashions, Christine Checinska -- Five Fragments of African Textile History, Roslyn A. Walker, We Face Forward, Gus Casely-Hayford -- Mid-Century Design: Shoreline Thinking and Crossing Borders, Christine Checinska -- II -- Contemporary Creatives, Christine Checinska -- Orange Culture: Once Upon a Time in Nigeria..., Monica L. Miller -- Agents of Change, introduced by Elisabeth Murray and featuring Akosua Afriyie-Kumi, Gouled Ahmed, Imane Ayissi, Maxwell Boko, Lafalaise Dion, Ami Doshi Shah, Lisa Folawiyo, Mariam Hazem, Nisha Kanabar, Sindiso Khumalo, Doreen Mashika, Lukhanyo Mdingi, Awa Meite, Laduma Ngxokolo, Bubu Ogisi, Adebayo Oke-Lawal, Nkwo Onwuka, Mmuso Potsane, Hend Riad, Neo Serati Mofammere, Baay Sooley, Laure Tarot, Adeju Thompson and Moses Turahirwa -- III -- Afro-Fashion Futures, Christine Checinska -- The Place We Call Home: Economic and Cultural Reclamation of African Fashions, Sunny Dolat and Nkoji Ngumi -- Reimagining Second-hand Markets in Africa , Hadeel Osman -- It Takes a Village, Omoyemi Akerele -- Choose our Own Seasons, Crown our Own Heroes: African Fashion at Home, Amine Bendriouich

Promotional Information

From the covers of Vogue to Michelle Obama's closet, the fashion of Africa exerts a worldwide pull. Exhibition runs from June 2022 to April 2023.

About the Author

Christine Checinska is Senior Curator Africa and Diaspora: Textiles and Fashion at the V&A.

Reviews

‘…full of stunning outfits, essays and other writing about the culture and history of the continent.'
*Sabina McKenna, Fashion Journal, 27th November 2024*