AFRICAN FASHION AS VISUAL STORYTELLING – SOME NOTES INSPIRED BY VICTORIA ROVINE’S INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN FASHION, GLOBAL STYLE

In her most recent publication, Victoria L. Rovine analyzes African fashion as a manifestation of African artistic expression. Beginning her study with the remark that ‘fashion tells stories’, the scholar follows in the path of an array of other eminent scholars in suggesting that dress is a form of communication (see, for example, Calefato 2004), whose powers of persuasion rely …