The way one dresses can express their heritage, culture, style and so much more. African-print textiles, which were actually inspired by batik or wax-resist cloth from Indonesia, have been used to ...

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 ...

The company behind some of Africa’s most popular fabrics is Dutch, but women vendors have managed to make the prints their own. With its geometric patterns, bold prints, and rich, electric pops of ...

A flourishing network of young immigrant entrepreneurs from Africa—with a sprinkling of first generation born in the U.S.—are creating a profitable ecosystem around modern Ankara print apparel. Ankara ...

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A new show at the Fowler Museum at UCLA explores the ideas of appropriation and ownership of African dress, and how African history and culture is communicated through the printed fabrics. African ...

There's "nothing like Black girl Magic," she wrote on Instagram. Makalaya Zanders, 18, is pictured here with her date to the prom for Garfield Heights High School in Garfield Heights, Ohio, on May 13, ...

Stella McCartney is being accused of cultural appropriation. The designer sent models down the runway wearing dresses with an Ankara print. Ankara is a traditional African print that is popular in ...

When Nina Akli’s daughter Alise was about 1 year old, she began to look for African print clothing for Alise to wear. But, to her surprise, the African print clothing she could find online wasn’t ...