Fashion in Africa | Colonization, Rebellion & Reclamation

An analysis of fashion as means of power and control in West and Southern Africa. The video highlights several cultures including the Swazi, Herero, and Kongolese. It also looks at « la SAPE. »

This was a research project for a history course on sin, vice and religion -- African intersections.

Music is Jazz Piano from Ben Sound

Bibliography.



Heywood, Linda M. “Njinga of Angola : Africa’s Warrior Queen.” Cambridge, Massachusetts ;: Harvard University Press, 2017.

Nguherimo, Jephta U. “unBuried-unMarked : the Untold Namibian Story of the Genocide of 1904-1908”. Self-published. 2019.