More than just clothing material, African textiles, vibrant pieces of cultural heritage, are stories, traditions, and ...

Co-owners Mira Kahindo and Joseph Maimomo share the inspiration behind opening their store. Inside you’ll find African men’s and women’s occasion clothes and kids' clothes and shoes. They also sell ...

Kente cloth, a brightly colored and intricately patterned traditional African fabric, can serve as a window into another culture.The cloth has been adopted into African American culture and is a ...

Ayissi is the first Black designer from sub-Saharan African to be included in the annual calendar of haute couture fashion shows, the founder of an eponymous Paris studio that melds traditional ...

The kneeling was an appropriate gesture, but wearing African kente stoles, at that moment, was not. Kente cloth is a traditional handwoven fabric that comes from the Akan peoples of Ghana.

But he doesn't make clothing just for African people. He says he wants his clothing to be inclusive; when people wear DIOP, he says, he wants them to celebrate the uniqueness of his culture.

A South African cultural activist says he is still reeling from the humiliation meted out to him for donning traditional attire to a shopping mall in a suburb of Johannesburg.

A new exhibit at Victoria and Albert Museum corrects the misperception that high fashion belongs to Western designers. The fierce garments attest to the motto of a Ghanaian: "West is not always best." ...

A South African cultural activist says he is still reeling from the humiliation meted out to him for donning traditional attire to a shopping mall in a suburb of Johannesburg.