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MONAA: How Traditional Slippers Led to a Luxury Footwear Label

by Natalie Kimani|09 October 201730 November 2017|Business, Fashion

Three Continents. Two Sisters. One Vision. MONAA is a footwear label that was started in 2013 by German-born Ghanaian sisters, Nana and Afua Dabanka. Their vision; to pay homage to their Ashanti heritage though their sandals that are handmade by...

African Footwear: What Was Our Shoe Game Pre-colonialism?

by Natalie Kimani|04 August 201704 August 2017|Fashion

We’re not going to lie. Trying to figure out just what footwear African ancestors could have worn before the scramble for Africa hasn’t been easy. It’s commonly believed that Africans roamed around barefoot before European intervention. And for civilizations found...