by Sekayi Fundafunda | Feb 28, 2021 | Design Futures Africa, Features
Softly spoken during most of our conversation, Betty Chilonde becomes animated when the topic turns to circularity and the potential of fashion in Zambia. Betty is not only a designer. She is also an educator, farmer and activist quietly shaping the future of design...
by Sekayi Fundafunda | Feb 27, 2021 | Fashion
For a fashion project that I did in collaboration with Zambian designer Betty Chilonde, she designed three looks that exhibit how she responds to her dream of living in harmony with nature and to critical questions. Why am I a designer? What am I contributing to the...
by David Aguacheiro | Feb 21, 2021 | Design Futures Africa, Features
When Mozambican designer Wacy Zacarias realised that most African textiles were not really African but imports from Holland and China, she shifted her focus from fashion design to reclaiming textiles for something more meaningful. “The tradition of African textiles,”...
by Temwa Msiska | Feb 14, 2021 | Design Futures Africa, Features
Vanessa Nsona collects waste, tinkers and toys, prototypes and makes new products. Circular thinking is central to her work in Malawi. “I have always thought of waste as treasure,” she says. I spent a day with Vanessa, visiting her workshop, sourcing materials in the...
by Bill Masuku | Feb 7, 2021 | Design Futures Africa, Features
Makadikko, avandi Moreblessings Moyo. Mama Moreblessings is my new comic book character. Read her story here: Moreblessings Moreblessings works as a street vendor in Harare, Zimbabwe, hustling to make ends meet, while her husband does the same as an uber driver in...