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Ojo, Pat O. 2005. Benin dressing in contemporary Nigeria: social change and the crisis of cultural identity. African Identities 3 (2) : 155–170.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

culture | identity negotiation | social class

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

Benin (Nigeria) dress culture, one of Africa's richest dress cultures, reaches back to antiquity. For the ordinary Benin citizenry though, there are no roots to go back to in the search for identity in the matter of dressing.