{"id":52236,"date":"2012-02-02T16:28:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T21:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=52236"},"modified":"2021-02-09T17:11:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T22:11:06","slug":"inside-africa-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2012\/02\/02\/inside-africa-fashion\/","title":{"rendered":"Fashion show focuses on traditional and contemporary African styles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_52237\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2012\/02\/02\/inside-africa-fashion\/bates-africa-fashion-faces\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-52237\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52237\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52237\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/02\/Bates-Africa-Fashion-Faces-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/02\/Bates-Africa-Fashion-Faces-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/02\/Bates-Africa-Fashion-Faces-333x500.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/02\/Bates-Africa-Fashion-Faces.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-52237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Modeling Nigerian dresses for the Inside Africa Fashion Show are first-year students (from left) Folarera Fasawe, Michelle Pham and fashion show host Nicole Kanu.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Traditional and contemporary fashions from Africa are the focus of Bates&#8217; premiere Inside Africa Fashion Show, starting at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the Africana Club, a student organization, the event is open to the public at no cost. For more information, please contact <a href=\"mailto:nkanu@bates.edu\">nkanu@bates.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to students modeling apparel from 10 African nations, the program includes a dance from the Congo, a performance of Ghana&#8217;s popular Azonto mime dancing and a rendition of the South African national anthem by the Gospelaires, a choir composed of singers from Bates and Lewiston-Auburn.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought it would be interesting to invite Bates and the community to see Africa,&#8221; explains Nicole Kanu, who conceived of the show and will host it. A first-year student from Little Rock, Ark., she is the daughter of a Nigerian couple. &#8220;Many look at Africa as one country and fail to realize that it is a continent that contains many countries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Inside Africa Fashion Show will take the audience into Africa and focus on some of the smallest differences between countries &#8212; in their attire. This show is about Africa today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The show will follow a plot depicting a student who is backpacking through Africa. &#8220;Each stop she makes shows her a different aspect,&#8221; Kanu says. At the end of the fashion show, the backpacking student will bring Africa back to America as models demonstrate how to mix and match American and African apparel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traditional and contemporary fashions from Africa are the focus of Bates&#8217; premiere Inside Africa Fashion Show on Feb. 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":52247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10771,652,9540],"class_list":["post-52236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-batesnews","tag-africa","tag-africana-club","tag-fashion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52236"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52257,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52236\/revisions\/52257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}