Sunny Dolat: The fashion thinker changing how the world sees African style

In this episode of The African Imaginary Podcast, host Khangi Khoza and curator Sunny Dolat dive into a Nairobi childhood held by four aunts and a grandmother, Maasai naming and the children who wait for a name, The Nest Collective and the film Kenya banned, waste colonialism and the secondhand clothing bales, indigenous vocabularies of sustainability, fashion as the architecture of the body, and more. Read the companion essay on Substack Follow us on Instagram Follow Sunny Dolat on Instagram   Sunny Dolat is a Nairobi-based curator, stylist, creative director and production designer working across fashion, film and exhibition-making. He is a founding member of The Nest Collective, whose oral-history film Stories of Our Lives won a Berlinale jury prize, screened in some ninety countries, and remains banned in Kenya. His curatorial work includes In Their Finest Robes the Children Shall Return, made for the Ngola Biennial in São Tomé, a contribution to the V&A's Africa Fashion exhibition, and the touring exhibition Return to Sender, which examined the economics of textile waste and secondhand clothing imports into East Africa. * The African Imaginary on Linktree Our Website