Fashioning Africa / Jean Allman -- Remaking fashion in the Paris of the Indian Ocean / Laura Fair -- Dress and politics in postWorld War II Abeokuta (western Nigeria) / Judith Byfield -- Nationalism without a nation / Heather Marie Akou -- Changes in clothing and struggles over identity in colonial western Kenya / Margaret Jean Hay -- Putting on a pano and dancing like our grandparents / Marissa Moorman -- "Anti-mini militants meet modern misses" / Andrew M. Ivaska -- From khaki to agbada / Elisha P. Renne -- "Let your fashion be in line with our Ghanaian costume" / Jean Allman -- Dressing dangerously / Karen Tranberg Hansen -- Fashionable traditions / Victoria L. Rovine -- African textiles and the politics of diasporic identity-making / Boatema Boateng -- Afterword / Phyllis M. Martin.