African Style

What you wear speaks volumes about you. It tells people what you are like, where you come from and who you are. If you explore this section of the site, you can find out about different aspects of African style, and learn about the ways that artists have represented these aspects in their work. Often, different groups of people can be recognised by what they wear or by their style of hair. Personal style is a matter of personal taste. These pages look at how people of African descent communicate their own style through fashion and body adornment.

Wolverhampton has a diverse range of communities living within its population of around 240,000 people. Amongst these communities is a large amount of groups of African descent. Many are Black or Black British, others are of Carribean origin. The estimated Black population of Wolverhampton is around 22,000 people.