In a small shop nestled inside the heart of Accra, Patience Golo prepares to stitch yards of African wax print for a wedding dress she is making for a client. The fabric is rich in color: pops of ...

Dédé Rose Gamélé Creppy, who has died aged 89, was one of west Africa’s most influential wax cloth traders. She was the youngest, and the last living, “Nana Benz” – the legendary first generation of ...

Erika Dalya Massaquoi has gone from curating and teaching fashion, as the former assistant dean of the School of Art and Design at FIT New York, to living it as the founder of The Oula Company. Using ...

Dédé Rose Gamélé Creppy was one of West Africa's most influential wax cloth traders. She was the youngest, and the last living, "Nana Benz" - the legendary first generation of women cloth traders from ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. With the global demand for African art and music steadily rising, it is no surprise that design from around the ...

Dédé Rose Gamélé Creppy, who has died aged 89, was one of west Africa's most influential wax cloth traders. She was the youngest, and the last living, "Nana Benz" - the legendary first generation of ...

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