Patterns in bogolanfini are not just for looks; they are deeply meaningful and tell stories. Every symbol represents ...

The next time you wear your denim jeans or jacket, remember that interwoven into the fabric are stories of struggle and ...

Return of the Carbon edition after five years sees it replacing the SV Edition Two and to some extent, the SV Black Edition.

Curators at the National Museum of World Culture in Sweden recently invited a group of Zambian women to help understand the ...

African Development Bank says that, in Africa, fashion and textile industry is the second largest sector after agriculture.

Su'a Uilisone Fitiao and his wife, Reggie Meredith Fitiao, are indigenous artists and cultural practitioners who have come to Chicago from American Samoa.

The bodysuit base was made of raffia and bark cloth, Uganda’s most sacred material- traditionally used in rituals and heritage ceremonies. “I wanted to embody Uganda in one piece,” she explains.

Bark cloth painting is one of many creative artistic practices found amongst the Mbuti, including singing, dancing, painting, learning languages and building houses.

Cutting new cloth: African designers stitch fresh stories into Paris fashion When Valérie Ka started modelling at 14 in Côte d’Ivoire, she thought she was on top of the world. But she wanted ...

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As President Trump claimed credit for lower unemployment among African Americans, cameras at Tuesday's State of the Union cut to members of the Congressional Black Caucus.

Bark cloth has evolved and its functions are no longer confined within the cultural boundaries of Buganda, since it has now become an international medium of visual artistic expression.