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Are South Africa’s Fashion Gangs Any Different Than Urban America’s Flossy Rap Culture?

Are South Africa’s Fashion Gangs Any Different Than Urban America’s Flossy Rap Culture?

Enter Johannesburg’s townships and on the outskirts of this quickly gentrifying metropolis lies the heart of South African culture. Fifty-five percent of the countries’ population lives in these “suburbs” established to separate Black South Africans from White Afrikaaners during Apartheid. The average working-class family living in Soweto, Umlazi, or Mdantsane survives on just R3,000 per…

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