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Let's Stop Referring to "African Decor" as One Style

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 w ....

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African Decor and Design: Why This Term Is Problematic

Please Stop Using the Term African Decor
Summarizing the design of 54 countries in one style is absurd.
By
Nafeesah Allen
Alice MorganGetty Images
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
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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