Mandela's tailor on mission to boost African fashion | Life

Saturday, 05 Jun 2021 11:34 PM MYT
Dyers dye cotton fabric at Pathe’O house in the popular district of Treichville in Abidjan. — AFP pic
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YAMOUSSOUKRO, June 5 — Ivorian-Burkinabe tailor Pathe’O can look back on a 50-year career that has seen him rise from self-taught improviser to supplier of Africa’s wealthy and powerful, including anti-apartheid torchbearer Nelson Mandela.
As well as South Africa’s first black president, his richly coloured shirts have graced the backs of Moroccan King Mohamed VI, Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame and the continent’s richest man Aliko Dangote.

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