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Feature article | 37 “These Girls’ Fashion is Sick!”: An African City and the Geography of Sartorial Worldliness Grace Adeniyi Ogunyankin They are the noble savages, staring out from coffee table books. Africa Adorned. The Last Nomads. Backdrops and extras for Vogue fashion shoots. Stock ingredients for tourist brochures … They are the myth of tribal splendour. Everything about them is foreign … Their “timeless culture” is the stuff of children’s books, of Western fantasies. They are everyone’s dream of people untouched by modernity. (Patel, 2010: 45; emphasis in original) What happens when black womanhood, black femininity, black women’s spaces, places and poetics are “Not on the margins”? …. if these conceptual and political differences are not simply cast as marginal, they do not have to replicate marginality. (McKittrick, 2006: 134-135; emphasis in original) Introduction As an urban feminist geographer with a research interest in African cities, I was initially pleased when the web series, An African City, debuted in 2014. The series was released on YouTube and also available online at www. anafricancity.tv. Within the first few weeks of its release, An African City had over one million views. Created by Nicole Amarteifio, a Ghanaian who grew up in London and the United States, An African City is offered as the African answer to Sex and the City, and as a counter-narrative to popular depictions of African women as poor, unfashionable, unsuccessful and uneducated. The show centers around the lives of five upper-middle-class repatriated women: Nana Yaa, Makena, Zainab, Ngozi and Sade. The characters are in their midto-late twenties and have decided to settle in Accra, Ghana, after having spent
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