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Fashioning Africa : power and the politics of dress / Jean Allman

Remaking fashion in the Paris of the Indian Ocean : dress, performance, and the cultural construction of a cosmopolitan Zanzibari identity / Laura Fair

Dress and politics in post-World War II Abeokuta (western Nigeria) / Judith Byfield

Nationalism without a nation : understanding the dress of Somali women in Minnesota / Heather Marie Akou

Changes in clothing and struggles over identity in colonial western Kenya / Margaret Jean Hay

Putting on a pano and dancing like our grandparents : nation and dress in late colonial Luanda / Marissa Moorman

"Anti-mini militants meet modern misses" : urban style, gender, and the politics of "national culture" in 1960s Dar es Salaam, Tanzania / Andrew M. Ivaska

From khaki to agbada : dress and political transition in Nigeria / Elisha P. Renne

"Let your fashion be in line with our Ghanaian costume" : nation, gender, and the politics of cloth-ing in Nkrumah's Ghana / Jean Allman

Dressing dangerously : miniskirts, gender relations, and sexuality in Zambia / Karen Tranberg Hansen

Fashionable traditions : the globalization of an African textile / Victoria L. Rovine

African textiles and the politics of diasporic identity-making / Boatema Boateng

Afterword / Phyllis M. Martin.

Clothing and dress > Symbolic aspects > Africa.

Clothing and dress > Political aspects > Africa.

Ethnic costume > Africa.

Women's clothing > Africa.