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Within the second a part of arts24’s Rwanda collection, Eve Jackson meets a designer who’s taking the nation’s style scene to the subsequent degree. As soon as a mannequin, now a designer, Moses Turahirwa depicts conventional Rwandan shapes and cultural motifs into up to date items. His shoppers embody the Ivorian footballer Didier Drogba, the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Trinidadian actor Winston Duke or the Spanish actress Rossy de Palma. We meet him within the workshop of his model Moshions to debate Rwandan style, the significance of gender fluidity in his clothes and confronting taboos in his dwelling nation.
We additionally meet theater director Dorcy Rugamba, who misplaced most of his household within the genocide in opposition to the Tutsis in Rwanda. Within the years since, he has made quite a few performs on the topic – the primary was referred to as “Rwanda 94” 25 years in the past. He talks to arts24 about his new artwork competition in Kigali and his guide “Hewa Rwanda”, printed by JC Lattès.
learn extraParticular programme: Rwanda’s cultural renaissance (1/3)