Required Readings

Jean Marie Allman. Fashioning Africa: power and the politics of dress. Chapter 1. Jean Allman Fashioning Africa. Power and Politics of dress

Didier Gondola. Dream and Drama: The Search for Elegance among Congolese Youth. African Studies Review

Andrew M. Ivaska. 'Anti-Mini Militants Meet Modern Misses': Urban Style, Gender and the Politics of 'National Culture' in 1960s Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Gender History

Further Readings: on Talis

Seminar Questions

1. Why did youth and women’s sartorial, aesthetic expressions and their comportment emerge as sites for debate?

2. What do debates about sartorial, aesthetic expression and their comportment tell us about the post-colonial state and its relationship with citizens?