Sharing African Visual Heritage

FINDING CULTURE THROUGH FASHION. THE UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATIONAL OF GREATER NAPLES. THESE PEOPLE THE CHANCE TO EXPERIENCE THE AFRICAN CONTINENT IN ACROSS A FASHION SHOW. THE EVENT WAS ABOUT MUCH MORE THAN THE CLOTHING WGCUS CULTURE AND CONNECTIONS. REPORTER ELIZABETH ANDARGE HAS THE STORY. >> GOT A DAY. THE MY HOW THE EYE MY NAME IS MARIA OFF. YOU COULD BE YES, THAT IS MY MIDDLE NAME. YES, DAN MERRETT, NICE AFRICA. WHENEVER I ARRIVED AT WORK AND FILL IN AN AFRICAN COUNTRY WAS OFTEN RECENT. MARNI WELCOME ALL OF THEM MISS OUT RIGHT NOW. >> FOR 4 DECADES AFTER COLE WAS HER MIDDLE NAME OFFICE CLASSROOM AND SECOND HOME. 22 COUNTRIES FROM SUDAN TO SOUTH AFRICA, DR B HAS A PHD IN SOCIAL SCIENCES AND YEARS OF FIELDWORK ACROSS THE CONTINENT LAST WEEK SHE UNPACKED BOTH FOR NAPLES AUDIENCE. >> WELL, I CAN TELL US WHERE SOMEONE YOU FROM, WHAT WILL THEY DO WITH THEIR MONEY? THEY'RE SPENDING OR HOW THEY WISH TO PRESENT HIMSELF. THE WORLD. >> SHE DID NOT ARRIVE KNOWING ANY OF THIS. SHE LEARNED THAT SOMETIMES PAINFULLY. >> IT'S BEING RESPECTFUL TOWARDS YOU KNOW WHAT THEY CONSIDER. APPROPRIATE CLOTHING. THE ONE TIME I WAS SORT OF WEARING NOT THE RADIO SHORT SKIRT, BUT MAYBE BELOW THE KNEE ONTO THE MARKET AND SOME OF THESE CITED TO FOLLOW ME. AND WITH ME. ON THE LEG, I SAID, WELL, YOU KNOW, I SHOULD NOT HAVE DONE THAT. >> IN SUDAN, THE LESS THAN ARRIVED FAST, THE SOLUTION SHE FOUND WAS ALREADY INGRAINED IN THE CULTURE AND CLIMATE. >> FROM THE TIME I STARTED ON ONE END OF THE CLOSE LINE TO THE AND THE OTHER AND THIS CLOSE, WE'RE DRY. THAT'S HOW HOT IT WAS. >> THE FASHION SHOW THAT FOLLOWED, WHO'S MORE ARCHIVE THAN RUNWAY JUDY. THERE NOW IS GOING TO BE JOINING US WEARING LIVE 90 WEDDING DRESS FROM ALGERIA. >> ISN'T THAT SPENDING? THE BRIDE ENTERS ADORNED IN THE LAYERS OF MEANING HER DOWN RICH WITH EMBROIDERY PERFORMED WRITTEN GOLDEN SILVER COINS. IF EACH COIN MARK OF INDEPENDENTS AND WEALTH. >> DOES SHE KEEP CARRIED HISTORY? EVEN ACROSS OCEANS. >> BUT TO SEE EMERGES AS A LIVING LANGUAGE. >> IT'S MY IT'S DRAWN FROM NATURE AND HISTORY. >> A FABRIC OF MEMORY AND SHARED IDENTITY. ITS VOICE GROWS ACROSS TIME AND DISTANCE IN THE 1960'S. THAT MOVIE ON THE CONTINENT WARNING THE STREETS DURING THE CIVIL RIGHTS AND BLACK POWER MOVEMENTS, THE CIRCLE OF UNITY AND IMMEDIATE RESISTANCE. AND YET IT SPEAKS WITH MORE THAN ONE VOICE. >> SHE POINTED TO A MASK FROM LIBERIA UP CLOSE. IT READS DIFFERENTLY THAN ONE WOULD EXPECT. >> THE BROAD FOR EDITS FOR INTELLIGENCE. THAT SMALL MOUTH IS KEEP YOUR MILD SHOCK THE THEM. YOU ARE. AND THE HAIR. >> ALSO SIGNIFIES SOME SOCIAL COOPERATION BECAUSE YOU NEED SOMEONE ELSE TO LIKE JUST. >> TO HELP YOU WITH YOUR HAIR. I CAN'T DO IT BY YOURSELF. AND YOU HAVE TO DO IT FOR OTHERS AS WELL. SO I GUESS THAT'S WHY I KIND OF LIKE, LIKE THOSE. >> AFTER 40 YEARS OF ACCEPTING INVITATIONS LAST WEEK, SHE EXTENDED ONE SPACE COULD BE THAT. I APPRECIATE THEIR FASHION. AND I LEARNED SOME OF THE THE MEANINGS BEHIND SOME OF THE SALON. >> WE ARE BY PRESENTING IT TO ME. THEY'RE READY INVITING ME INTO THEIR CULTURE THING. WE GIVE THIS TO YOU BECAUSE WE WANT TO DO. WEAR IT AND TO SHOW OTHERS. THAT, YOU KNOW, HOW BEAUTIFUL OUR THING SAW HER. >> AND AS A JOURNEY COMES TO A CLOSE, WE PAUSE NOT ONLY TO ACQUIRE TO IT. NOW THIS PRESENTATION IS OFFERED WITH DEEP RESPECT AND GRATITUDE HONORING CULTURES HISTORIES AND COMMUNITIES FROM WHICH WE USE PERMITS AND THE SPIRIT OF UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST VALUES. WE SEE TURNER TO HONOR AND TO ENGAGE WITH CARE AND RESPECT. MAY THIS BE NOT AN ACTIVE APPROPRIATION, BUT I APPRECIATION ATTRIBUTE TO TRANSITION IDENTITY AND THE VERY HAPPY TO HERITAGE. >> FOR WGCU NEWS, I'M ELIZABETH ANDARGE