African Apparel

Featuring stunning examples of African textiles, clothing, headwear and jewellery, this elegant new volume celebrates dress as a product of global interactions, generational conflict and continuity, and an expression of gender. This richly illustrated catalogue highlights the strength and resilience of long-standing practices that characterise African dress. From formal European colonisation, to independence for African countries, to the liberalisation of African economies, this book beautifully illuminates how a wide variety of motivations and identities are reflected in African material culture of the last century.

Accompanies the exhibition African Apparel: Threaded Transformations across the 20th Century at Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Florida, 18 January to 17 May 2020.