Bloomsbury Fashion Central

Table of contents

• Front matter
  • Map
  • Contributors
  • Encyclopedia Preface
  • Preface to Africa
• Part 1: Overview of Dress and Fashion in Africa
  • Introduction: The Study of African Dress
  • Climatic Zones and Cultural Regions
• Part 2: History of Dress and Fashion in Africa
  • Archaeological Evidence
  • Photographic and Other Visual Sources
  • Prehistory to Colonialism
  • Colonialism to Independence
  • Independence to Present
  • Heads of State and Dress
  • Fashion in African Dress
  • African Fashion Designers
• Part 3: Types of Dress in Africa
  • Body and Beauty
  • Body Modification and Body Art
  • Jewelry
  • Headdresses and Hairdos
  • Beads and Beadwork
  • Footwear
  • Masquerade, Theater, Dance Costumes
  • Children’s Masquerade Costumes
• Part 4: African Textiles
  • North Africa
  • West Africa
  • East Africa
  • Southern Africa
• Part 5: North Africa
  • Algeria
  • Egypt: Historical Dress
  • Dress in Egypt in the Twentieth Century
  • Dance Costumes
  • Libya
  • Morocco
  • Tunisia
  • Mauritania and Western Sahara
• Part 6: West Africa
  • Benin
  • Burkina Faso
  • Senegal and Gambia
  • Designer Oumou Sy
  • Ghana
  • Guinea
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Côte d’Ivoire
  • Liberia
  • Mali
  • Niger
  • Nigeria Overview
  • Yoruba in Nigeria and Diaspora
  • Hausa in Nigeria and Diaspora
  • Igbo in Nigeria and Diaspora
  • The Kingdom of Benin
  • Lower Niger Delta Peoples and Diaspora
  • Kalabari Peoples of Nigeria
  • The Nigerian Fashion Scene
  • Sierra Leone
  • Togo
  • Cameroon
• Part 7: Central Africa
  • Central African Republic
  • Chad
  • Republic of Congo and Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Mangbetu Dress
  • Kuba Dress and Textiles
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Gabon
  • Fang of Equatorial Guinea and Gabon
• Part 8: Horn of Africa
  • Ethiopia
  • Eritrea
  • Somalia
  • Djibouti
  • Sudan
• Part 9: East Africa
  • Madagascar
  • Tanzania
  • Kanga
  • Kenya
  • Uganda
  • Rwanda and Burundi
• Part 10: Southern Africa
  • Angola
  • Botswana
  • Lesotho
  • Malawi
  • Mozambique
  • Namibia
  • South Africa Overview
  • Nguni, Zulu, and Xhosa Dress and Beadwork
  • Pedi, Ndebele, and Ntwane Dress and Beadwork
  • Tsonga Dress and Fashion
  • Migrant Workers, Production, and Fashion
  • Women’s Cooperatives and Self-Help Artists
  • Swaziland
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe
• Online Exclusives
  • African Print Textiles from China
  • Mbuti (BaMbuti) Bark Cloth
  • Zande Bark Cloth
  • Fancy Dress: African Masquerade in Coastal Ghana
  • Masquefest 2012
  • Yoruba Crowns
  • Yoruba “Uniforms” (Asọ Ebì)
  • Asọ Ebì and Fashion Magazines in Nigeria
  • Okpella
  • Moroccan Fashion Designers
  • Twenty-First-Century Moroccan Women’s Dress
  • The African Wrapper
  • Oromo Dress
  • Harari Dress
  • Printed Commemorative Cloth in Malawi