Kala — Dikenga Collection Tee

Black model wearing the Kala black tee, Dikenga Collection by Bana Bilaka

Kala — Dikenga Tee No. 02

£29.90

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Kala is the rising sun: birth, the first step, pure potential. In the dikenga cycle the new sun breaks the Kalunga line on the right-hand side, half risen, its first rays cutting upward into the dark. The Kala emblem holds that exact moment in an embroidery-style print medallion of charcoal, ivory and pale gold on deep black: the instant before everything, when nothing has been spent and everything is still possible. This is the piece for departures and rebirths, for the first morning of the new city, the new name, the new chapter, the thing you finally started.

(Français)

Kala est le soleil levant : la naissance, le premier pas, le potentiel pur. Dans le cycle du dikenga, le soleil neuf perce la ligne Kalunga à droite, à demi levé, ses premiers rayons montant dans la nuit. L'emblème Kala fixe cet instant exact dans un médaillon imprimé effet broderie, charbon, ivoire et or pâle sur noir profond : le moment d'avant tout, quand rien n'est dépensé et que tout est encore possible. La pièce des départs et des renaissances, du premier matin de la nouvelle ville, du nouveau nom, du nouveau chapitre.

Ce que ça signifie / What it means

In Kongo cosmology, life is one sun moving through four moments: conceived at midnight (Musoni), born at dawn (Kala), at full strength at noon (Tukula), passed to the world of the ancestors at dusk (Luvemba). This cycle is the dikenga: one sun, four moments, and the Kalunga line, the water threshold between the worlds, which the cycle crosses without ever stopping.

Un seul soleil, quatre moments, et la ligne Kalunga, ce seuil d'eau entre les mondes, que le cycle traverse sans jamais s'arrêter. D'après la cosmologie kongo documentée par K.K. Bunseki Fu-Kiau, African Cosmology of the Bântu-Kôngo.

Part of Collection 01 · Dikenga : The Four Suns. Emblème No. 02 of 5.

Fabric & Fit

Stanley/Stella Creator 2.0 — 100% organic combed ring-spun cotton (GOTS-certified fabric), 180 gsm single jersey, fabric washed. Colour: Black. Medium fit, true to size.