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Introduction

Sarah Fee
pp. 5-8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tmj.2021.a932823
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Indigo Reimagined: A Conversation with Peju Layiwola

Jean Borgatti
pp. 10-23
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tmj.2021.a932824
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Arkilla, Kaasa, and Nsaa: The Many Influences of Wool Textiles from the Niger Bend in West Africa

Bernhard Gardi, Michelle Gilbert
pp. 24-53
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tmj.2021.a932825
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Unraveling Threads: Cloth in Zohra Opoku’s Poetic Image Making

Silvia Forni
pp. 54-71
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tmj.2021.a932826
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Royal Garments of the Emir of Kano Muhammadu Sanusi II, 2014–2020

Elisha P. Renne, Abdulkarim Umar DanAsabe
pp. 72-91
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tmj.2021.a932827
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Reconstructing the Historic Akhnif: A Semi-Circular Woven-to-Shape Cloak of Southern Morocco

Myriem Naji
pp. 92-117
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tmj.2021.a932828
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Not African? Contested Origins of Wax Print and Its High-Fashion Appropriation

Boatema Boateng
pp. 118-137
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tmj.2021.a932829
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Getting to Know Early Modern Western Central African Textiles: New Evidence, Old Shadows, and the Puzzle of Pineapple Fibers

Cécile Fromont
pp. 138-151
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tmj.2021.a932830
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The Fabric of Diaspora: Memory, Portraiture, and Empowerment in the Quilts of Bisa Butler

Nancy Demerdash
pp. 152-169
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tmj.2021.a932831
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Between History, Theory, and Practice: Iconographic Analysis and Re-Creation of the Silk and Cotton Tablet-Woven Hangings of Ethiopia

Michael Gervers, Claire Gérentet de Saluneaux
pp. 170-197
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tmj.2021.a932832
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Two Àdìrẹ Cloths and One Fancy Factory-Printed Design as Popular Political Commentary on the Career of Obafemi Awolowo

Tunde M. Akinwumi
pp. 198-207
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tmj.2021.a932833
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Mid-Nineteenth Century Weavings from Imerina, Madagascar: A Missionary’s Collection in Dialogue with Contemporaneous Malagasy Texts

Sarah Fee
pp. 208-221
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tmj.2021.a932834
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Masquerading Politics: Kinship, Gender, and Ethnicity in a Yoruba Town by John Thabiti Willis (review)

Okechukwu Nwafor
pp. 222-225
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tmj.2021.a932835
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Recommendations from the Library

Tracy Meserve
pp. 226-228
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tmj.2021.a932836
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