By Chen Hangfeng Do you know there is a village on an island in Kenya called Shanga, said to be named after Shanghai? In this video, visual artist and filmmaker Chen Hangfeng introduces Voyages of Identity, a multidisciplinary project exploring the intersections of heritage, identity, global trade, and cultural colonialism through two interrelated strands. Chen Hangfeng is the China Africa Fashion Power collaborative artist and researcher in residency at the University of Ams

by Hangfeng Chen In 2023, I traveled to Nairobi, Kenya, for the first time. Everywhere I looked, I encountered traces of China: railways, highways, high-rise buildings, industrial parks, smartphones, surveillance cameras, and countless everyday commodities. Yet what fascinated me most was something else entirely—the brightly patterned fabric that has come to symbolize "African identity": African Wax Print, known in Swahili-speaking East Africa as Kitenge. With the help of a l