It makes me cry laughing when I see morons in the US wearing "traditional African". It is actually traditional Ghanan, the people that sold them across the pond.
It is more absurd than Americans wearing red coats and long white curly wigs.
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Isaiah Anderson
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Jordan Lopez
I remember going to buy a belt at the mall when Black Panther came out. The mall is attached to a movie theater and I saw a bunch of blacks in African dashikis and shit.
I swear I bet they walked out and thought Wakanda was a real place and was proud to be black.
Cameron Morales
Wakanda...created by jews
Tyler Mitchell
God. They are so. Fucking. Stupid.
Jaxson Diaz
Was the Ghana Empire actually "black" (i.e. sub-Saharan African)?
Eli Bell
It was a coastal empire on the current location.
Samuel Flores
It was a coastal empire occupying the shoreline of current Ghana and Togo I believe.
Juan Barnes
No it didn't, the French just gave the name Ghana to a random shithole in west Africa without caring for history.
Cooper Lewis
It was black, but it wasn't anything special.
Cooper Lee
This is like someone wearing lederhosen or a kilt in public. Fuckin' clowns.
Brody Davis
Call it what you fucking want. That was the geographical location. The Ghanan government issued an official apology for Christ's sake.
Nathaniel Fisher
Agreed. Honk honk
Dominic White
Here's your Traditional African Dress.
kek
Ian Carter
Sure, there are tons different dress. The point is the afro Americans worship their opressors
Eli Hill
what are traditional ghanaian clothes anyway?
there is kente. kente was developed in 17th century by ahantis. it's a handwoven fabric and was meant to be worn by royals only.
later in the 20th century it became a symbol for ghana peoples liberation from colonial rule. regular people began to wear kente during weddings or on daily occasions to show their national pride.
nowadays kente is intertwined with ghanaian pop culture/fashion... like the dress in OP's picture
there is more to traditional ghanaian clothes though...
Lincoln Thompson
The point being afro Americans are not descendants of this culture. Its appropriated and they use it as a symbol of their heritage which it is not.
Anthony Perry
different colors and patterns represent different things. each tribe has own type of kente cloth. there are tribes in ghana who don't wear kente at all.
there are clothes you wear for funerals. those come mainly in red and black. black is for close friends and distant relatives of the deceased. red is for close relatives.
someties people wear white. when the deceased person became over 70 years old
Nathaniel Richardson
it was whites who migrated down and created it....
Luke Evans
Is your gf from Ghana?
Nathan Walker
some kings in ghana made a fortune by trading slaves for guns and gunpowder
but ended up dead or as slaves in america or the caribbeans too. so some black americans may have west african roots.
most of the time what we see in the media is the oversimplified version of traditional african clothes anyway. and black americans only bought what they saw in the media.
pic rel. is what people sell you as a african dress. the truth is it's a combination of west european and west african culture. the dress is made out of a cloth called holland wax print. these prints were originally designed and made in europe targeted for the asian market but ended up becoming popular in west africa.
the colonisation of africa by europeans left a deep irreversible impact on africa, especially on west african culture. africans expressing that thru fashion, food, art, music
as for the black americans rocking dashikis. their culture and their longing for african roots is the result of colonisation/transatlantic slave trade. living in amerika and not being welcomed, living as a second class citizen for 400 years, not being allowed to read or write, not being allowed to vote, being forced by your owners to make children with your relatives. it's all imprinted in their minds and souls. american slave owners did a lot of evil to black americans.
Aaron Wood
my wife is ghanaian
Carson Young
are are you the Ghanan femanon? :)
Chase Nelson
i'm of volga german descent and my wife is second gen ghanaian immigrant. sometimes she's posting on Jow Forums too.
Luke Ward
show us her chocolate milkers
Camden Kelly
>sold them across the pond
based ghana man tells limp bbc reporter slaves can get bend
youtu.be
love the pragmatism