Your “African fabric” isn’t African

Your “African fabric” isn’t African and that’s not always a travesty. This is the one in which I share some of the complex history and practices in African textiles which make our conversations around assimilation and acculturation not so straightforward. Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/cw/khensani Make a donation: https://buymeacoffee.com/khensani Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/okbaddiek/?hl=en 0:00 The fabric map of Africa 02:23 Assumptions we need to challenge 03:12 Africa’s textile history has always been multicultural 04:45 Acculturation and indigenisation 06:16 Indigenous fabrics don’t always exist 09:49 African fashion as call & response 11:38 The economics & politics of textiles today 15:00 Changing the discourse Sources: Online: Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance: The Culture and History of South African People (1985) by Jean Comaroff https://voidnetwork.gr/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Body-of-Power-Spirit_of-Resistance-by-Jean-Comaroff.pdf Church Uniforms as an Indigenous Form of Anglicanism: A South African Case Study (2016) by Beverley Haddad https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-anglican-studies/article/church-uniforms-as-an-indigenous-form-of-anglicanism-a-south-african-case-study/3770619787DE0D239D7C67D8C4F4EB21 Fashion, Material Culture & History (2016) by Beverly Lemire https://www.jstor.org/stable/44809755?seq=2 Fiber Spinning During the Mapungubwe Period of Southern Africa: Regional Specialism in the Hinte