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I dropped off Kangas with Nzinga, and photographed Jennifer get fitted for an Obama skirt. Jennifer is getting a dress and a skirt from Kebbe -she fell in love with a style in the lookbook. Nzinga and I got into an interesting debate about whether or not being 2nd generation Trinidadian, born in the US counts as African-American. She raised several strong points, and I guess kinda won because the project was supposed to be all African-American, as in “family came over to the US during slavery,” women, but now Nzinga’s one of the 12. Her parents were born in Trinidad and Guyana, but Nzingha was born and raised in the US. She’s an amazing designer. She and her twin sister Nsenga will be Kanga twins. She is making dresses for both of them and is excited about the creative challenge of working with the kangas. You can follow Nzinga’s summer line and follow her Obama Skirt progress here http://nzingaknight.wordpress.com/ Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry®
