Creatives celebrate African Culture through fashion show
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The African Collections’ Fashion Week of All Nations show will be held at the Cresta Lodge in Gaborone on Saturday
The African Collections’ Fashion Week of All Nations show will be held at the Cresta Lodge in Gaborone on Saturday.
The project director, Daisy Botsoba-Tlhabologang, said she was inspired by her Setswana culture and lifestyle especially the children’s traditional attire, makgabe, tshega and phaeyana. She added that there will be youth and gender designers at the show. She explained that the criteria for choosing participants was for everyone who is a tailor, designer and dress maker from 19 to 70 years of age.
It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...