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Kwame Nkrumah’s Suits: Sartorial Politics in Ghana at Independence

Authors :
Abena Dove Osseo-Asare
Source :
Fashion Theory. 25:597-632
Publication Year :
2021
Publisher :
Informa UK Limited, 2021.

Abstract

This paper examines the wardrobe of the first prime minister and president of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, to show how he created a set of “suits” or “looks” to mirror his overlapping traditional, modern,...

Details

ISSN :
17517419 and 1362704X
Volume :
25
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Fashion Theory
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........f0ae5a4bb953197e310cbaad19f866c0
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1080/1362704x.2021.1878591