African fashion won’t move on from the past

In which I sort of, but not really, make up an emerging African fashion subculture because why let homework go to waste? I’m dissatisfied with Afrofuturism as a framework and propose Afromodernism as the wave to discuss how African fashion is finding transformative and reflective ways to engage the archive and feed into nostalgia. Sources: Rebekah Nkirote’s TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@iamnkirote/video/7599773551956069653Mumbi Poetry: https://www.instagram.com/mumbipoetry/ The Kairos of karos: Revisiting notions of temporality in Africa by Cilliers Johan https://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2413-94672018000100008 Become a Patreon member: https://patreon.com/khensani?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/okbaddiek/ Substack: https://www.khensani.substack.com/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@okbaddiek Chapters: 0:00 Intro 02:16 Part 1: 20th-century Modernism 04:50 Part 2: Afromodernism 06:38 Part 3: The First African Fashion Renaissance 11:41 Part 4: The Afromodernists 13:44 Part 5: Nostalgia 17:22 Part 6: FUTURE Nostalgia