Modernising the ‘primitive African’: The influence of colonialism on African dressing
“Europe created the concept of savageness and barbarism as antithesis to its modernity and civilisation. Henceforth, Europe was to represent the modern model and the rest was to represent the antiquity; the traditional” Rabah Omer ‘The Modern and the Traditional: African Women and Colonial Morality’ During the 15th Century, Europeans set out on a quest […]