Iman’s lifetime achievement award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America is an occasion to remember the “original sin” of her superstar modeling career: that despite her vast education in Nairobi, and despite her family’s priviledged social background, and her very father’s sophistication as a Somali diplomat, Iman permitted herself to be presented as a gorgeous beauty plucked right out of the African jungle. The canard, presented by her “discoverer,” the photographer Peter Beard, could partly forgiven because of the stupidity of European and American fashion establishments. After all, there are no jungles in Somalia; the czars of fashion should have grasped the error in Iman’s PR bio. Or perhaps they did. Iman’s faked jungle progency pandered to white presumptions that the only “:authentic” Africans come from the bush. Yet time and again, in truth, successful Africans in Europe and the U.S. — and not only in the realm of beauty but in the terrains of brains too — hail from ultra-urban environments, priviledged schools and relative wealth.
Class analysis, however tired and predictable, remains an imp0rtant tool in understanding what works in Africa.
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