Leteisi gets under threat

Friday, February 05, 2016

Women wearing different patterns of Leteise at Son Of The Soil PIC: THALEFANG CHARLES

As Botswana attains 50 years of self-rule, Photographer THALEFANG CHARLES joins Bana Ba Mmala at the Son Of The Soil cultural festival in search of Botswana inspired print on a Botswana dress.

Is there even such a thing as Botswana dress? Well, this question has been asked many times and local fashionistas and cultural activists have tried with some success, or otherwise, to answer it. Many have adopted leteise - the so-called German Print - as Botswana cloth.

The British might have given us the protection before we claimed our independence, but the Germans undoubtedly gave us the traditional dress.

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