Not African Enough
A Fashion Book by The Nest Collective
by Sunny Dolat and The Nest Collective ; photographs by Maganga Mwagogo, Joseph "Nabster" Chege, Thandiwe Muriu and Sarah Waiswa

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Author(s)

Sunny Dolat (The Nest Collective)

Publication

Nairobi : The Nest Arts Company Lmtd., 2017

Scope

368 Pages, illustrated, 26 cm.

ISBN

9780996704823

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"Not African Enough" is a derogatory term routinely lobbed at African designers who step outside the narrow confines of what the world—and Africans—are told it means to dress, talk, think and be like an African. This book asserts the right to be more than enough. Not African Enough presents a collection of words and images from a selection of emerging Kenyan designers who are contributing to the shifting aesthetic of Kenya. Under the creative direction of collective member Sunny Dolat, the Nest Collective has spent two years exploring the idea of what constitutes Kenyan fashion with a crop of contemporary Kenyan fashion designers.

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Person as subject

Adele Dejak, Wambui Kibue, Anyango Mpinga, Ami Doshi Shah, Ambica Shah, Katungulu Mwendwa, Munga, Kepha Maina, Ogake Mosomi, Namnyak Odupoy, Firyal Nur Al Hossain, Wambui Mukenyi and design duo M+K (Muqaddam Latif and Keith Macharia)

Keywords

decolonisation

Location

Cabinet 29 - 5: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; decolonisatie

Remarks