Whether looking to the runways in London or Johannesburg, it’s obvious that young African designers are breaking with tradition and letting the world know there’s more to African style than boubous and dashikis. Gone are the days where ‘African’ designer meant only African fabrics and traditional patterns. With the recent Young African Fashion Week in London and Arise Africa Fashion Week (which featured 51 designers from 20 African countries) we got to see how a new generation of designers is daring to take the African aesthetic to new heights. We at AfriPOP! love our fashion just as much as the next blogazine and we love our African designers even more. We’ve rounded up five hot African designers we think you oughta know about. They’re young, they’re cosmopolitan, and they’re definitely speaking to the Afropolitan’s worldly sensibilities.