Citations + Recommended Sources
Section I - Africa On My Mind
Kente Cloth in Contemporary Diaspora by Dyese Matthews
Boateng, Boatema. “African Textiles and the Politics of Diasporic Identity-Making.” Fashioning Africa: Power and the Politics of Dress, edited by Jean Allman, Indiana University Press, 2004, pp. 212-226.
Hale, Sjarief. “Kente Cloth of Ghana.” African Arts, vol. 3, no. 3, 1970, pp. 26-29. https://doi.org/10.2307/3334492
Johnson, Courtney et al. “Swagger Like Us: Black Millennials’ Perceptions, Knowledge, and Influence of 1980s and 1990s Urban Fashion Brands,” Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, 2020, pp. 1-16, https://doi.org/10.31274/itaa.8415
Kraamer, Malika. “Ghanaian Interweaving in the Nineteenth Century: A New Perspective on Ewe and Asante Textile History.” African Arts, vol. 39, no. 4, 2006, pp. 36-95, https://doi.org/10.1162/afar.2006.39.4.36
Pith Helmet Reemerges, This Time on Melania Trump by Daniel Sickle
Helen Callaway. “Dressing for Dinner in the Bush: Rituals of Self-Definition and British Imperial Authority” in Ruth Barnes and Joanne Eicher, eds. Dress and Gender: Making and Meaning (Berg Press, 1992), 232 - 247.
Vanessa Friedman, "How the Clothes Make the First Lady," New York Times, May 27, 2017.
Section II - Displaying Our Politics
Kingly Competition, Kuba Cloth from DRC by Fath'Ma Shabani
The Qcc Art Gallery of the City University of New York. www.qcc.cuny.edu/artgallery/exhibitDetail.asp?exhibitID=25.
McDonnell, Tim. “A Great African Kingdom Tells Its History In Fabulous Royal Clothes.” NPR, NPR, 20 Oct. 2018, www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/10/20/658101128/a-great-african-kingdom-tells-its-history-in-fabulous-royal-clothes.
“Kuba Textiles from the Congo: Indigo Arts.” Kuba Textiles from the Congo | Indigo Arts, 1 Feb. 2020, indigoarts.com/galleries/kuba-textiles-congo.
“Kuba Textiles: An Introduction.” [CoOL], cool.culturalheritage.org/waac/wn/wn08/wn08-1/wn08-102.html.
Person. “What Is Kuba Cloth? A Short History of the Central African Fabric.” House Beautiful, House Beautiful, 7 Oct. 2020, www.housebeautiful.com/design-inspiration/a34304694/what-is-kuba-cloth/#:~:text=This%20style%20originated%20in%20the%2017th%20century%20in,art%20tradition%20from%20this%20part%20of%20the%20world.
Threads of State by Joseph Mullen
Christopher Richards, “Prints and Politics: Reflections on President Obama’s Visit to Ghana,” Susan Cooksey (ed.), Africa Interweave: Textile diasporas (Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, 2011), 83-85.
DUAFE: Scarves and the Struggle for Salvation in Nigeria by Laurence Minter
(n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.adinkra.org/htmls/adinkra/duafe.htm
Kisambe, S. (2016, June 28). #AfricanFashion: Headscarves becoming a fashion symbol. Retrieved from https://africa.cgtn.com/2016/06/28/africanfashion-headscarves-becoming-a-fashion-symbol/
Madunagu, B. (2008). The Nigerian Feminist Movement: Lessons from "Women in Nigeria", WIN. Review of African Political Economy, 35(118), 666-672. Retrieved May 4, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/20406565
Osondu-Oti, Adaora. (2018). NIGERIAN WOMEN LIBERATION STRUGGLES: THE JOURNEY SO FAR.
Reappropriation and Independence by Richard Green
Chuku, Gloria. "Igbo Women and Political Participation in Nigeria, 1800s-2005." The International Journal of African Historical Studies 42, no. 1 (2009): 81-103. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40282431.
Umejesi, Innocent O. “The spread of Islam in Nigeria.” 1992, Orita: Ibadan Journal of Religious Studies Vol. 24, No. 2, P. 85-96.
https://academic-eb-com.proxy.library.cornell.edu/levels/collegiate/article/flag-of-Nigeria/93928
Intersectional Design: Telfar Clemens by Estefania Perez
Vanessa Friedman, “The Year of Telfar” (2020). https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/style/telfar-clemens-designer.html
Emily Witt, “Telfar Clemen’s Mass Appeal” (2020). https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/16/telfar-clemens-mass-appeal
Section III - (A)dressing Class and Culture
The Fashion-Tradition Collision by Esuvat Bomani
Laura Fair, “Remaking Fashion in the Paris of the Indian Ocean: Dress, Performance, and the Cultural Construction of a Cosmopolitan Zanzibari Identity” in Jean Allman (ed.), Fashioning Africa: Power and the Politics of Dress (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004), 13 – 30.
Andrew Ivaska, “’Anti-Mini Militants Meet Modern Misses: Urban Style, Gender and the Politics of National Culture in 1960s Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Gender and History vol. 14, no. 3(2002): 584–607.
Significance and Use of Pagnes by Laure-Emmanuelle Dalle
A Cross of Tradition and Cultural Wear: Malian Women Fashion by Bintou Sow
The celebration of Eid al Fitr https://www.muslimaid.org/what-we-do/religious-dues/ramadan/eid-ul-fitr/
Typical Malian Wedding Wear https://clipkulture.com/malian-traditional-wedding-attire-and-jewelry/
Coffee With a Little Fashion and Ceremony by Harmela Anteneh
Wrapped in Blue by Riley Martin
Byfield, Judith. “Innovation and Conflict: Cloth Dyers and the Interwar Depression in Western Nigeria” Journal of African History, Vol. 38, No. 1 (1997), 77 – 99.
“Adire: the Art of Tie and Dye - The Centenary Project - Google Arts & Culture.” Google, Google, artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/adire-the-art-of-tie-and-dye-pan-atlantic-university/NQJysVP8AxQtIw?hl=en.
Wolff, Norma H. “Adire.” LoveToKnow, LoveToKnow Corp, fashion-history.lovetoknow.com/fabrics-fibers/adire.