Diaspora| We are the African Diaspora and that says way more about us than saying we are black people. There are no "black" cultures only African cultures found in the Motherland and the Diaspora. And the culture of the Diaspora did not stop just because slave ships dropped us off there.
This shirt is to celebrate the unique African culture of the Diaspora. Using a stunning rare red burnt linen mixed with Ghanaian kente accents this shirt pops. No two shirts are the same and every patchwork of Kente fabric on the linen is artistically inspired.
It is all about balance and that is why the pocket and all the trims were carefully crafted to perfectly balance the top.
Did you know: Diaspora primarily refers to the forced African Diaspora taken to the New World by the European slave trade in captive Africans. There is a second voluntary Diaspora made up of Continental Africans immigrating to the Western nations. The African Diaspora makes up most of the Africans we find in Latin America, America, the Caribbean, and Europe especially the UK. The world is ignorant of this massive Diaspora despite seeing us on TV all day long. They are unclear on how we arrived in the West. In Africa people ask "Which country are you originally from" this is the legacy of poor education because they know about the Queen of England, The fate of the Jews but not their own Diaspora. Below is the triangle trade and today it is almost the same. Where we were leaving Africa as slaves, today we leave Africa in the form of a brain drain because Africa has failed to utilize its greatest asset—her children. Today as finished good come into Africa and raw materials leave. Ocacia exports finished goods. Finished premium goods.
Malcolm X said, if chickens are raised in an oven they are called chickens, not biscuits. People on the continent of Africa just like people in the Diaspora have been visited by the same level of destruction. In Africa, as in the UK as in America, as in South America as in the Caribbean have devalued our own clothes. We have Nike in Africa as our uniform just like the UK. A friend of mine from TZ at uni told me we in the Diaspora have no culture. I forgave him because he never been to the Diaspora and Africans globally have a terribly poor education which goes both ways. It is shamefully poor. And it was made that way by the forces which enslaved us. The last thing they want us to do is to unite via our common identity. But the Diaspora, just like Ethiopia is Ethiopia and Benin is Benin is part of the African world. It is just that we are in the West now. Our cultures never stopped just because the boat dropped us off in the Americas. We at Ocacia are continuing that journey!