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Dress and fashion practices in Africa and the diaspora are dynamic and diverse, whether on the street or on the fashion runway. Focusing on the dressed body as a performance site, African Dress explores how ideas and practices of dress contest or legitimize existing power structures through expressions of individual identity and the cultural and political order. Drawing on innovative, interdisciplinary research by established and up and coming scholars, the book examines real life projects and social transformations that are deeply political, revolving around individual and public goals of dignity, respect, status, and morality. With its remarkable scope, this book will attract students and scholars of fashion and dress, material culture and consumption, performance studies, and art history in relation to Africa and on a global scale.

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Introduction

Karen Tranberg Hansen | 1

 

 

Part I: Dressed bodies and power

 

1Dressing for success: the politically performative quality of an Igbo woman's attire

Misty LBastian | 15

 

2 Fashionability in colonial and postcolonial Togo

Nina Sylvanus | 30

 

3Branding festive bodies: corporate logos and chiefly image T-shirts in Ghana

Lauren Adrover | 45

 

 

Part II: Material culture, visual recognition, and display

 

4 Bazin riche in Dakar, Senegal: altered inception, use, and wear

Kelly Kirby | 63

 

5Fashioning people, crafting networks: multiple meanings in the Mauritanian veil (malah?fa)

Katherine Wiley | 77

 

6The hijab as moral space in northern Nigeria

Elisha PRenne | 92

 

 

Part III: Connecting worlds through dress

 

7Dressing the colonial body: Senegalese rifleman in uniform

Keith Rathbone | 111

 

8Ghana boys in Mali: fashion, youth, and travel

Victoria LRovine | 124

 

9Forging connections, performing distinctions: youth, dress, and consumption in Niger

Adeline Masquelier | 138

 

10Fashion, transnationality, and Swahili men

Tina Mangieri | 153

 

 

Part IV: Transculturated bodies

 

11Photography, poetry, and the dressed bodies of Le?opold Se?dar Senghor

Leslie WRabine | 171

 

12Transculturated displays: international fashion and West African portraiture

Candace MKeller | 186

 

13Spectacular dress : Africanisms in the fashions and performances of Josephine Baker, 1925-1975

Bennetta Jules-Rosette | 204

 

14Dressing out-of-place: from Ghana to Obama commemorative cloth on the USAmerican red carpet

DSoyini Madison | 217

 

 

Index | 231