Nigeria’s fashion has evolved beyond wrappers over the waist or torsos to great fashion pieces with an endearing global appeal and we are here for all of it at Bolakoka. There was once a time when indigenous fabrics were just occasionally remembered for weddings, chieftaincies or funeral ceremonies, and every other day would be for […]
Akwa-Ocha, a popular hand-woven cloth is peculiar to the people of Anioma, meaning the good land in Delta State. Anioma land is the Igbo-speaking part of Delta state comprising of Aniocha, Ndokwa, Ika and Oshimili people who are all associated with the Akwa-Ocha fabric. Akwa-Ocha, which literally means white cloth, is designed and woven for […]
Kente Cloth is probably the most universally recognised of all African Fabrics.Kente Cloth first gained exposure on the international scene with the rise of Kwame Nkrumah and the Independence of Ghana in 1957. The fact that the handwoven Kente was expensive, difficult to obtain, often uncomfortably warm & heavy, and hard to tailor led to […]
The most popular print fabric is tagged Ankara in Nigeria, Kitenge in Burundi, Atampa in Ghana etc, Even though the the Ankara fabric has come with lots of controversies from many quarters about it being depicted as an identity for Africans, it is widely worn by many Africans and has been used to depict the […]