Kalunga — Dikenga Collection Hoodie

Kalunga jet black hoodie product view, embroidery-style Kongo emblem printed on the chest, Dikenga Collection by Bana Bilaka

Kalunga — Dikenga Hoodie No. 05

£49.90

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Kalunga is the water threshold between the world of the living and the world of the ancestors: the line every sun of the dikenga must cross. Those who crossed the Atlantic carried it with them; by the tradition of the First African Baptist Church in Savannah, the cosmogram is found pierced into the floorboards of the church. On this heavyweight black hoodie, the Kalunga emblem burns a small gold sun in an indigo night above a bold silver water line, while below it the same sun breaks into shimmering fragments: not gone, reflected. The signature piece of the collection, made for the diaspora above all, now in its warmest form. The line connects, it does not separate.

(Français)

La Kalunga est le seuil d'eau entre le monde des vivants et celui des ancêtres : la ligne que chaque soleil du dikenga doit traverser. Ceux qui ont traversé l'Atlantique l'ont emportée avec eux ; selon la tradition de la First African Baptist Church de Savannah, on retrouve le cosmogramme percé dans le plancher de l'église. Sur ce hoodie noir épais, l'emblème Kalunga fait brûler un petit soleil d'or dans une nuit indigo au-dessus d'une ligne d'eau argentée, et en dessous le même soleil se brise en fragments scintillants : pas disparu, reflété. La pièce signature de la collection, pour la diaspora avant tout, dans sa forme la plus chaude. La ligne relie, elle ne sépare pas.

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. 05 of 5.

Fabric & Fit

AWDis Just Hoods JH001 College Hoodie: 80% ringspun cotton, 20% polyester, 280 gsm with a soft brushed inner fleece. Double-fabric hood, kangaroo pouch pocket, ribbed cuffs and hem. The emblem is an embroidery-style print on the chest. Colour: Jet Black. Regular fit, true to size.