Textiles: Our Ancestral Stories
Textiles: Our Ancestral Stories
Black History Month
Date: Wednesday 21 October 2020
Time: 14:00 - 15:30
Venue: Zoom
Category: Courses
Speaker: Naa Densua Tordzro (UofG) and Chandra Brooks (currently studying at UofG)
Website: rila_bhm2020_2.eventbrite.co.uk
Join Naa Densua Tordzro and Chandra Brooks in a fun discussion and shared stories on textiles and quilting. We will learn about fabrics, patterns, migration, connections and the importance to Africans through migration in the global south, and its significance to Black American and Africans in the Diaspora in the global north. Come and be part of oral stories of migration and decolonisation of textiles and quilts, as told by their ancestors.
This event is part of four Black History Month sessions organised by the UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts. For the full programme, please visit the UNESCO Chair website.
Biographies
Naa Densua Tordzro
Naa Densua Tordzro currently works at the University of Glasgow as Research Assistant on MIDEQ (Migration for Equality and Development), and is an MPhil reserach student in the School of Education. She holds a BA in Fashion Technology from the Heriot Watt University in Galashiels, Scotland.
Naa Densua is Ghanaian, a fashion designer, dressmaker and African (Ga) music composer and singer with knowledge and research interest in ancient West African Adinkra symbols that were printed on traditional fabrics. Her current research focus is on decolonising textiles and fashion education in the contexts of the global south.
As a designer and African textile artist, she has spent time researching the value of African textiles culture of the Ghanaian living in the diaspora. She is also looking at how African textiles and clothing is interpreted when worn or used by people other than Africans. Naa Densua has created numerous items of clothing for wear, in Ghana and Scotland. She currently has a gown entitled ‘Obaa Sima’ Virtuous Woman on display at Kelvingrove Museum and Arts Gallery.