Colombia
At 24, Esteban Sinisterra dresses Colombia’s first black female vice president with his amazing designs
Esteban Sinisterra Paz, a 24-year-old Colombian student, shot into the fashion limelight when the wardrobe of Colombia’s first Black Vice President, Francia Marquez, made news headlines. His fashion pieces, which he calls “the resistance fashion,” have a unique way of catching the public’s attention with their Afro-Colombian patterned style; a suitable description of the persona…
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Colombia: Palenqueros fighting to save native tongue 200 years after escaping slavery
When enslaved Africans escaped from the port of Cartagena in the 17th century, they fell...