1. Introduction: cities and flows / (Kerstin Pinther, Basile Ndjio, Kristin Kastner)
Part I. Histories and archives. 2. Tracing threads of time and space in conceptual fashion design in Lagos / (Alexandra Weigand, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich) ; 3. "Me I no be gentleman like that." Fela as Yoruba anti-aesthetic fashionista / (Okechukwu Nwafor, Nnamdi Azikiwe University) ; 4. Woman in a white tobe: historical memory, identity, and a viral image in Sudan / (Marie Grace Brown, University of Kansas) Text/Images by Mohamed El Shahed (The British Museum
Independent Researcher)
Part II. Materialities and aesthetic practices 5 fashionable practices of accumulation: refining textiles in Dakar / (Kristin Kastner, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich) ; 6 Transnational Chinese fashionscapes and the new glamour ethos in the city of Douala, Cameroon / (Basile Ndjio, University of Douala) ; 7. Dressed for architecture: fashion design and space in Lagos / (Kerstin Pinther, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich) Text/Images by South African photographer Sabelo Mlangeni on Fashion in Johannesburg
Part III. Bodies and media. 8. Afro-Brazilian dress in family photo archives in Lagos Metropolis / (Frank A. O. Ugiomoh, University of Port Harcourt) ; 9. Ibrahim Kamara. The shape shifter / (Odessa Legemah, independent writer and editor) ; 10. Disobedient dress: fashion as everyday activism / (Christine Checinska, VIAD, University of Johannesburg) Text/Images by Nairobi based fashion-designers
artists The Nest Collective, Nairobi ; 11 Epilogue / (Victoria Rovine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill).