Asiimwe Brian Sanvra is an aspiring Ugandan designer, who uses his fashion and his talent as a "creative voice" helping him deliver critical social messages to his community and his country. For him, fashion is more than an outfit, and an outfit is more than a combination of garments -- each outfit is a statement about the designer and the wearer's position on issues important to them.
Today, we are spending those five precious minutes with Pierra Ntayombya, the CEO of Haute Baso, a women’s clothing and accessories brand – but also so much more than that. This is the brand that stands for all things important to Africa and to the world right now --- diversity and inclusion, gender empowerment, responsible fashion, and deep pride for the country and the continent that they call home.
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, two young and brave ladies started a jewelry company to keep themselves -- and a handful of other Kenyans -- busy earning income. Today, The Drunk Leopard is a thriving small enterprise with its signature line of jewelry and clothes and big dreams for the future. Sahiba Bamrah is a co-founder and a lead designer of this young, creative, conscious brand, which stands for everything that youth can and do contribute to the economic, social, cultural and intellectual landscape in Kenya and East Africa.
Hortense Mbea is the Founder and Creative Director of Afropian, a Pan-African fashion brand that tells stories of Africa’s history through art and design and traces the common threads that bring different people of the continent closer together.
