Fashion Design in Kanye

A couple of weeks ago at Family Day at the Thapong Art Centre we met Nono, fashion designer and maker of Herero dolls. Well, I had been looking for someone who could make me some German Print skirts and it turns out that Nono could do that for a very good price. So I went to Timba Trading in the African Mall and purchased some fabric, one brown and one blue, and met Nono one day at Kalahari Quilts at the Craft Market in Broadhurst where she sells some of her merchandise. Nono lives in Kanye and I thought it would be fun to go there and pick up the skirts when they were finished. Then I was talking to Sethunya who needs a German Print skirt for a wedding and whose aunt Anna lives in Kanye. So on Saturday we and Sethunya and Motswedi and Moroka headed for Kanye. It is only about 80 km away but took well over an hour with traffic and the usual driving conditions. It was a familiar road, the one we had taken recently to Gabane and longer ago to Thamaga. Once at the junction to Kanye, when we saw the huge sign for Jwaneng and Windhoek, we realized that we had passed that way before a few years ago on our way to Namibia. In the end, we did not see that much of the very large town of Kanye, rather spent most of our time at Nono's house or Anna's house or climbing the tree that grows out of a concrete block. Mave had been a little concerned that we were traveling to yet another village - given that they all 'look alike.' But Kanye is much bigger than that. We didn't leave till about 5:30 and it was nearly dark within half an hour. That is a lovely time to be traveling with the sun setting, the cows heading home, the children running home, the fires burning and everyone thinking about settling in for the evening. Once back in Gaborone the usual heavy traffic and city life!