Merchants on Long highlights the timeless West African craft of indigo dyeing and weaving with the launch of the Nigerian ...

Yoh: A popular South African interjection, which the OED traced to 1855. It comes from two South African languages: Afrikaans ...

In the book Red, White, and Black Make Blue: Indigo in the Fabric of Colonial South Carolina ... A lot of people don’t even realize that it’s an African American crop, and how important ...

Yoh' effortlessly conveys different emotions and was among a number of local terms recently added to the Oxford English ...

Passing on traditions constructs a special sense of community along with a quilt. Through the lens of African American quilts, explore layers of creativity, diversity, and family history that enrich ...

Gatvol? Sharp-sharp? The Oxford Dictionary just made South African slang official, and it’s about time.

Wax fabric is widely seen across West Africa today ... it was later reclaimed and popularized by various African nations, becoming a symbol of identity and even protest. However, its history ...

The list of South African words come from several ... SeSotho and refers to a "type of printed cotton fabric, originally dyed with indigo but now available in various colours", according to ...