Fashion Peace In Kenya, A Documentary

By 

Joshua Bee Alafia

The Kenyan Elections of December 27, 2007 sparked a violent reaction that resulted in the displacement of over 500,000 people from their homes, eventually filling tent city IDP (Internally Displaced People) camps. Fashion For Peace united fashion designers and artists from Kenya and across the African continent to raise funds for the peaceful resettlement of those displaced peoples. They brought the legendary photographer, Barron Claiborne, and myself, to document the event.  We went from IDP Camps in Eldoret to shooting high fashion in Mombassa, the huge gala event in Nairobi, and then I took a bus out to Naivasha where another IDP camp of 20,000 reside beside flower plantations, and shot in Africa's largest shantytown Kibera.  There are so many stories that need to be told!