Africa Fashion

Dr Christine Checinska is Curator of African and Africa Diaspora Fashion at the V&A. A creative designer in the fashion industry for over 30 years, including for iconic brands such as Margaret Howell, she is a Research Associate at VIAD, University of Johannesburg.

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