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African fabrics: a heritage in search of recognition

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Little girl wearing a Kuba loincloth, Kinshasa, DRC © Jemima TSHIALA ODIA, Kinshasa, RDC

By: Emmanuelle Bastide

1 min

Ghanaian kente, Cameroonian ndop, Mauritanian veil, Nigerian adire, Faso Dan Fani from Burkina Faso... the African continent has a rich textile heritage that sometimes goes back several centuries.

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Original fabrics, varied, resulting from an artisanal manufacture and which also carry religious, social, ritual or political values.

While imports of second-hand clothing, counterfeits, or the predominance of Wax threaten local textiles, some brands and designers are trying to perpetuate these craftsmanship by using and creating their own prints.

African fabrics that we find more and more in the parades of haute couture houses.

How to recognize the original fabrics of counterfeits?

How to ensure the maintenance of artisanal and local production?

With

- Marie-Jeanne Servin Thomas

, editor-in-chief of

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, Cameroonian stylist.

In 2020, he is the first sub-Saharan designer to join the official calendar of haute couture week in Paris.

- Yemi Akobi

, creator of the Beninese brand

At the end of the show,

with the portrait of

, this young Togolese built his car from A to Z entirely with recycled materials.

Our reporter

 met him in Lomé.

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Tzy Panchak 

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