Every time I opened the conversation about my experience — as a young black African woman — in the [French] Fashion scene, I was often scared to sound like a militant, when it actually is the single expression of my point of view, as a person of color in a very elitist industry.
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On reclaiming power over the African narrative
For the last few hundred years the portrait painted of Africa has been brush strokes of poverty, war and hunger colored in with undertones of corruption and disease. While some of these things are a reality in some places it is exciting to see Africans and afro-descendants pushing past the generic cosmetic narrative to tell