Africa Fashion at The Brooklyn Museum with Ifeanyi Awachie

Welcome to Kutimba With Siima!

In the Premiere Episode, I'm joined by Ifeanyi Awachie to review the landmark Africa Fashion exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in New York. Ifeanyi is a Nigeria-born, Atlanta-raised writer, curator, filmmaker, and scholar.

Africa Fashion is the largest-ever exhibition charting the global impact of African fashions from the 1950s to date. The exhibition, first shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London last year, features over forty designers and artists from Africa and its diasporas. Over 180 items, including garments, sketches, catwalk footage and music, depict how Africa’s influential sartorial language has been crafted.

We discuss how we felt about certain curatorial decisions, what we enjoyed and disliked, what we would have done differently, the legacies of the exhibition and more.

Host: Siima Itabaaza

Editing: Wana Benjamin

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