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Let s Stop Referring to African Decor as One Style Nafeesah Allen © Alice Morgan - Getty Images Stop what you’re doing right now and Google “African Decor : The results are a wild mashup. Summarizing the design of 54 countries in one style is absurd. Stop what you’re doing right now and Google “African Design.” Browse a few entries and click down a bit to see if you can find anything that is close to coherent. Don’t worry I’ll wait. My own search resulted in a gallery of kitsch fabric styles, moribund web pages from African design institutions like the African Design Centre and MOADJHB, and specious pontifications from non-Africans. A 2013 HuffingtonPost article didn’t mention a single country by name when its author wrote, “African design is founded in [sic] on Primitivism and is concerned with raw form, childlike lines, and references to wildlife, earthly hues and the color orange.” The entire continent just sighed with exhaustion.

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