‘Dutch’ print But oddly enough, African textiles aren’t African. In 1846, Dutch entrepreneur Pieter Fentener Van Vlissingen learned that there was a high demand for printed cotton.

African print fashion, the subject of a new show at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, is so closely associated with a particular place and heritage it instantly conjures up an image in one’s mind. The ...

A multimedia installation, "The Founder's Project" reimagines Boston public high school students as the “legendary progenitors of West and Central African ethnic groups that are ancestral to the ...

When her white teacher told her that an Ankara-print gown would be "tacky for prom", 18-year old Makalaya Zanders of Cleveland, Ohio, didn't get mad — she just showed up to prom looking bad as ...

AfribbeanBaby creates affordable African print kids’ clothing to Madison Starting as a project to make clothes for her daughter, AfribbeanBaby has grown into a community-funded business in the ...