Wax print fabrics or Ankara fabrics are known for their graphic patterns, bold colours and catchy slogans. The iconic cloth is now being celebrated in an exhibition at the Musée de l’Homme in ...

Ankara typically refers to outfits made from African printed fabric. Today, these include virtually everything from shoes, trousers, dresses, jackets, hats, and shorts. While the material has ...

Once upon a time, the Ankara fabric was considered to be the official clothing of poor people. The affluent hardly ever wore Ankara, and even when they did, it would be because of an occasion or ...

Nnorom’s use of the Ankara fabric in ‘clothing’ his artistic and social vision also found both literal and metaphorical validation in its visual enunciation of the collocation ‘the fabric ...

All you have to do is purchase the fabric, and you are good to go. However, with the continuous growth in the fashion industry, ready-to-wear clothes have evolved to include very high-standard and ...

Kenyan artist Thandiwe Muriu joins us to talk about the fabric’s function in her striking portraits, and how she uses textiles to explore identity, aesthetics and her own place in society.