BUZIGAHILL

Fashion designer Bobby Kolade is the founder and creative director of Kampala-based clothing brand BUZIGAHILL. In a defiant act titled RETURN TO SENDER, BUZIGAHILL redesigns second-hand clothes and redistributes them to the Global North, where they were originally discarded before being sent to Uganda.

Kolade was born in Sudan to Nigerian-German parents and grew up between Kampala and Lagos. He holds a masters in Fashion Design from the Academy of Arts Berlin Weissensee and has professional experience at Maison Margiela and Balenciaga in Paris.

As co-host of the Ugandan podcast Vintage or Violence, he is actively asking questions about the country’s textile past and the impact that fast fashion and the second-hand clothing supply chain has on the local environment.

Bobby Kolade is a passionate gardener.