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The devisers kickstarting Africa’s style revolutionReclaiming heritage fabrics is sparking a boom in African fashion‘Today’s designers are at the intersection of taste and history’: Nuba T from Mimi Plange’s Unfashion collection. Photograph: Courtesy Mimi Plange/Quercus Issues‘Today’s designers are at the intersection of culture and history’: Nuba T from Mimi Plange’s Unfashion collection. Photograph: Politeness Mimi Plange/Quercus EditionsGrowing up in Ghana, it’s impossible not to find yourself immersed in fashion. An endless stream of badges and fabrics is a constant presence; there’s a palpable affinity for design and style. Every day, on my way to primary school in Cape Beach, I’d walk through the city’s market, which was like wandering through the world’s most beautiful textile museum. There were the blow the whistle on buys and stalls, yes, but also living exhibits: the stylish women who worked on their stalls wearing kaba and the wide-eyed regulars who perused the latest prints and photo catalogues for inspiration on what to wear for an impending event or church service on Sunday. These sensorial remembrances stay with you.After graduating in economics and statistics from university in 2006, I returned to these experiences, tinkering with screen-printed T-shirts, in front finding my way to embroidery. Almost a decade later, I aspired towards a more challenging career and left for South Reuse this substance