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Arise Africa Fashion Awards - African fashion celebrates talent

22 Jun '09
3 min read

And so in a night dominated by South African and Nigerian fashionistas, it was an American R&B music star that really brought the house down. Acknowledged as an honouree African after a set of his most famous international hits, R. Kelly was a crowd pleasing entertainment act in his very first African performance ever.

“We may not have won the football tonight,” said Dr. Precious Moloi-Motsepe, chairperson of African Fashion International, “but we won ground in the mission to take African fashion to the world.”

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