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FASHION | AFRICA | NOW

with Beatrace Angut Oola

23 episodes

8 months ago

Enjoy the flow that Senegalese-born New York-based international known photographer, Delphine Diallo, releases as she liberally shares her journey of enlightenment; working as a talented graphic designer in the Parisian creative scene yet not able to get past the glass ceiling in the corporate art world. A climactic epiphany for change and a divinely orchestrated connection with the legendary Peter Beard saw her to collaborate on the Pirelli calendar shoot in Botswana. This turning point led ...

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Enjoy the flow that Senegalese-born New York-based international known photographer, Delphine Diallo, releases as she liberally shares her journey of enlightenment; working as a talented graphic designer in the Parisian creative scene yet not able to get past the glass ceiling in the corporate art world. A climactic epiphany for change and a divinely orchestrated connection with the legendary Peter Beard saw her to collaborate on the Pirelli calendar shoot in Botswana. This turning point led ...

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Fashion & Beauty

Society & Culture,

Entrepreneurship

Episodes (20/23)

FASHION | AFRICA | NOW

Picture And Reconstruct Me Different: Delphine Diallo

Enjoy the flow that Senegalese-born New York-based international known photographer, Delphine Diallo, releases as she liberally shares her journey of enlightenment; working as a talented graphic designer in the Parisian creative scene yet not able to get past the glass ceiling in the corporate art world. A climactic epiphany for change and a divinely orchestrated connection with the legendary Peter Beard saw her to collaborate on the Pirelli calendar shoot in Botswana. This turning point led ...

3 years ago

1 hour 21 minutes

FASHION | AFRICA | NOW

Trade With Africa: Skander Negasi

Skander Negasi, CEO of Trade and Fairs GmbH, introduces us to the developing fashion and textile hub in East Africa. With manufacturing costs increasing in Europe and Asia, buyers are looking for new destinations. Following the successful launch of the Origin Africa trade show in 2012 in Ethiopia alongside US Aid, since then many international trade fairs, events & conferences within different industries, including textile, apparel and fashion have been organised. He is responsible for th...

3 years ago

52 minutes

FASHION | AFRICA | NOW

The Power Of Technology And Its Digital Spaces: Seju Alero Mike

For our 19th Episode, we met with Seju Alero Mike, creative entrepreneur from Nigeria. She’s a hybrid of emerging talent of combined passion for the creative space and methodological expertise. In Seju’s case, it is rooted in finance. Seju is the founder and lead curator of OSENGWA; an online platform featuring contemporary African art, fashion and music conceived by artists at the forefront of today’s Neo-African movement. In 2016 OSENGWA & The Monroe Trust presented the Afro Frontal exh...

3 years ago

52 minutes

FASHION | AFRICA | NOW

Young, Black And Reflecting Experiences: Soji Solarin

Soji Solarin is a Nigerian born contemporary fashion designer whose experience and perception on racism in Germany and world view offer a unique perspective on ‘Blackness’. Moving to America from Nigeria at the age of 13, he’s drawn inspiration from hidden figures such as the Black cowboys in America, which we later see reflected in Soji’s first collection “Negro Cowboys“. From Nigeria to Maryland, Los Angeles, lang haul to Berlin, where he’s now based, to Moscow where he debuted his Spring 2...

3 years ago

46 minutes

FASHION | AFRICA | NOW

Shift African Aesthetics Into Design Spaces: Dr. Cornelia Lund

Meet the art, media and design theorist, curator and co-director of Fluctuating Images, a platform for media art and design, Dr. Cornelia Lund. Well-travelled and versed in the art and design world, Lund’s academic perspective and articulation substantiates and encourages validation of non-Eurocentric and Anglocentric theories and practices within the art and design framework. Lund’s intriguing analysis on recent contemporary African art trends explores music, art and design production; notic...

3 years ago

55 minutes

FASHION | AFRICA | NOW

Explore and Reconnect Fashion and Music: Ibaaku

Ibaaku joins us for our #16episode all the way from Senegal - sonic poet, visual artist, composer, radio presenter and platform founder. This multi talented artist shares with us extensive insight into the African music scene. In true Fashion Africa Now style, the topic of fashion and music is explored on the African scene; Ibaaku describes fashion and music as “two expressions that go together. For me it’s a way to give body to the music, give body to the frequency… fashion and music a...

3 years ago

50 minutes

FASHION | AFRICA | NOW

Push For Your Dreams And Change The Narrative: YEGA

A career in fashion fuelled by passion, YEGA talks to Beatrace and gives the exposé on her spontaneous journey to becoming an established fashion illustrator. Luxury fashion, editorial and bespoke art, the unique combination of design, fine art and commerciality is what makes fashion illustration niche in the art form world for many Africans. This is why YEGA has found much of her success in the Middle East and Europe. Her illustrations have covered the walls in the Dubai Mall, they have been...

4 years ago

50 minutes

FASHION | AFRICA | NOW

Trade With Africa And Grow Local Production: Chebet Mutai

Chebet Mutai gives an exposé from a global perspective into the fashion and textile industry all the way from Nairobi, Kenya. Her break into the fashion scene has been solution-orientated. Chebet founded the luxury lifestyle brand, Wazawazi that specialises in leather accessories, reflecting beauty and the progressive nature of Kenya, and by extension, Africa. Providing training, up-skilling, and generating economic value to the local community is at the helm of her brand. With a background i...

4 years ago

45 minutes

FASHION | AFRICA | NOW

Hubs Of Creativity Raising Cultural Pride: Carmen Hogg

The rise in black platforms promoting and celebrating Africa has been instrumental in raising cultural pride and and expectations of the Continent. Hubs of creativity, fashion, innovation business and entrepreneurship are rapidly springing forth and advancing with technology. And there are those non African who have invested their time and passion into the Continent, seeking commonality. Style anthropologist, writer, creative producer and part-time DJ, Carmen Hogg from Amsterdam, represents t...

4 years ago

51 minutes

FASHION | AFRICA | NOW

Change And Re-embark The Ecosystem: Ssonko Brian & Tazibone Solomon

Out of the Pearl of Africa is an erupting fashion scene. A Ugandan special with guests, Tazibone Solomon in Kampala and Ssonko Brian in Jinja, hosted by Beatrace Angut Oola out in the Diaspora in Germany, also originally from Uganda. Solomon brings a wealth of experience in Ugandan celebrity glamour, couture, media and entertainment. While Ssonko empowers local communities, artisanal production, textile innovation and advocates for sustainability. The multifaceted nature of fashion and its im...

4 years ago

1 hour 1 minute

FASHION | AFRICA | NOW

Questioning The Narrative Is Conscious Awakening: Akinbode Akinbiyi

Akinbode Akinbiyi’s wisdom from wandering through cities and nations, observing the essence and evolution of life is captured through his art form of photography. In this episode we hear his insight as Beatrace probes a conversation on the rising awareness and pride in Black culture. His vivid experience from the fifties to the present day of world changing movements frames several scenes that have brought empowerment and assertion to Africa and the Diaspora. Cultured, travelled, internationa...

4 years ago

50 minutes

FASHION | AFRICA | NOW

Hip Hop Transformed Fashion Forever: April Walker

Fashion Icon April Walker, from Brooklyn, New York, is considered as one of the architects and trailblazers in streetwear. The release of ‘The Remix: Hip Hop X Fashion’ in 2019 on Netflix, put a spotlight on Walker Wear as one of the brands pioneering with the glitterati of Hip Hop from the eighties and nineties. New York was a diverse melting pot of hustlers, the famous, athletes and even correctional officers. On the flip side April reveals the underbelly of the misogynistic and oppressive ...

4 years ago

50 minutes

FASHION | AFRICA | NOW

Side Effects Of Black Intellectual Women: Dr Natasha A Kelly

Dialogues about Black aesthetics are necessary, according to Dr. Natasha A. Kelly. Dedicated to empowering and educating the Black community in Germany, the diaspora and strengthening the bond to Africa. Kelly is an academic, an author, a critical thinker, a visionary and an arts and culture shaker. You’ll hear her blunt perspective on institutional and structural racism, Black women and the Eurocentric gaze, digital racism, vector capitalism and tokenism - just some of the themes touched in ...

4 years ago

54 minutes

FASHION | AFRICA | NOW

Heritage Aims For Excellency: Awa Meité

Awa Meité, the Malian textile and fashion designer, epitomising power and humility. Awa debuted her unique handmade SS20 collection on the catwalks of Lagos Fashion Week, through unimagined fateful paths crossing. Awa Meité is known for her excellency and has been chosen to be part of Beyonce`s Black Is King visual album. This has given her and the community she pays homage to, the fabulously talented and dedicated cotton producers and craftsmen and women in Bamako, Mali, international ...

4 years ago

48 minutes

FASHION | AFRICA | NOW

A Fashion Business Built On Belonging: Audrey & Anne-Cecile Picardo

Two sisters take on Berlin, opening up their French fashion concept store La Case Paulette. These Reunion Islanders retell their journey from being ‘just a number' in the dog eat dog fashion industry of Paris, giving well rounded insight of their experiences as young black women living both in France and Germany and shifting into the pioneering space. “The Devil Wears Prada” was not just a movie, it’s the Paris fashion industry [Anne-Cécile], which they lived out working for world renowned br...

4 years ago

47 minutes

FASHION | AFRICA | NOW

Creativity As A Process - Finding Your Identity: Jaqee

Celebrating hair, aesthetics, identity and the sound from Uganda and the diaspora. Jaqee is an internationally celebrated recording artist, with a singing voice gentle, soulful and clear as glass, and a bold afrocentric persona. She’s also known for her raw unadulterated natural hairstyles carefully considered in line with her artistry, such as styles that represent crowns. Her talent and passion for her artistry over the years has led her to really own her authentic space within the creative...

4 years ago

42 minutes

FASHION | AFRICA | NOW

Respect Experiences And Create A Circular Culture: Sydney Emeka Nwakanma

Pioneering Creative Director, Sydney, has been on a journey of discovery exploring different creative avenues to find his boundaries and his voice. He has definitely found the vessel for the vision he has by encouraging a culture that is ethical, conscious and circular through hand-me-down trade. Sydney’s project, Emeka-Suits, provides a solution through fashion that offers a beautifully tailored collection that exudes “a feeling… more than a strict aesthetic”. The German-based designer from ...

4 years ago

44 minutes

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The Responsibility To Be Different: Buki Akomolafe & Cherie Birkner

Making a difference in fashion. 2016 appears to be a pivotal year for both our guests; Buki Akomolafe founded fashion brand, BUKI AKOMOLAFE in 2016, describing her label as a cross-cultural bridge between two different worlds. Cherie Birkner exited the fast fashion scene in 2016, then shortly after founded the online platform, Sustainable Fashion Matterz, providing solutions and campaigns on sustainable fashion. While both have taken very different avenues within fashion in Germany, their pas...

4 years ago

52 minutes

FASHION | AFRICA | NOW

The Body Is The Primary Museum: Prof. Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung

Passionate about creating spaces of learning, Prof. Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung shares his perspectives with Beatrace on artisanship from Africa and the diaspora. An internationally renowned curator of African art, author, professor at the Weissensee Academy of Art in Berlin, founder of Savvy Contemporary, yet with a doctorate in biophysics, Ndikung gives a critically thought-out and cross-dimensional perspective on the current state of post colonial art and fashion. A mouthful right? ...

4 years ago

1 hour 1 minute

FASHION | AFRICA | NOW

Conscious Fashion Is The Future: Jana Braumüller

Jana Braumüller, a feminist, political thinker and women’s rights campaigner within fashion talks with Beatrace. Sustainability and justice are at the heart of Fashion Changers, a digital content platform Jana co-founded. Petitioning for laws bringing radical transparency, along with workshops, events and a co-written book, are just some of the efforts Fashion Changers are helping to drive on a societal scale in Germany. A parallel journey many young designers and brands from Africa and the d...

4 years ago

48 minutes