PRESS CONFERENCE

PRESS CONFERENCE

Author: with Beatrace Angut Oola July 24, 2025 Duration: 1:00:21

PRESS CONFERENCE UNGERMAN – UNDEUTSCH

Five Years After Black Lives Matter: What Has Truly Changed?

Tap in to hear voices that are not waiting for a seat at the table - We are building new rooms, new runways, new businesses, new realities. It’s about ownership! 

Five years after the global uprising under the banner of Black Lives Matter and in the heart of the UN Decade for People of African Descent, we pause to ask the urgent, uncomfortable, necessary question

 What has truly changed?

In this episode, recorded live during Fashion Africa Now’s third press conference, leading women of African descent from the creative industries and visionary business consultants — including Beatrace Oola, Kemi Fatoba, Meriem Lebdiri, Boitumelo Pooe, and Jacqueline Shaw — come together to reflect, reckon, and reimagine. The conversation is moderated by Prof. Marcellous Jones, with powerful written statements contributed by Dr. Mahret Ifeoma Kupka and Isi Ahmed. 

We explore the deep fault lines that still define the German fashion scene:
✔️ Selective visibility.
 ✔️ Token & Colorism inclusion.
 ✔️ Structural exclusion masked as progress.

Author Fatima El-Tayeb’s term UNGERMAN serves as a framework to unpack how racialized communities – especially Black people, Muslims, and Roma – continue to be treated as permanently foreign, while whiteness remains the silent standard of national identity.

🎧 Together, we ask:

  • Who gets to define African fashion?
  • Who profits from it – and who is systematically left out?
  • How can solidarity-based economies disrupt extractive systems?
  • What would real, structural investment in Black creatives in Germany look like?

We don't need more symbolic gestures. It is time for redistribution, recognition, and radical imagination because fashion is more than fabric. It is memory. It is resistance. It encompasses the past, present, and future.

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Hosted by Beatrace Angut Oola, FASHION | AFRICA | NOW moves beyond the runway to explore the intricate tapestry of style emerging from the continent and its global diaspora. Each episode is built on a simple, powerful idea: to understand where African fashion is going, you have to engage with the people who are actively shaping it, while honoring the deep cultural and historical currents that inform their work. You’ll hear from designers translating tradition into contemporary wear, historians unpacking the stories behind textiles, and business minds navigating the industry's unique opportunities and challenges. These conversations are less about trends and more about the systems, stories, and souls behind the garments. This podcast delves into the fusion of ideas across borders, examining how creativity intersects with entrepreneurship, cultural identity, and social commentary. It’s a space where the past is not just referenced but is in active dialogue with a dynamic present, all while asking critical questions about sustainability, ownership, and global influence. Tune in for a thoughtful, grounded exploration that treats African fashion as the serious, multifaceted global force it is-a living narrative being written stitch by stitch, conversation by conversation.
Author: Language: en-us Episodes: 24

FASHION | AFRICA | NOW
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