Kalunga · Dikenga Hoodie No. 05

from £49.90

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.

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Compare	Printed	Embroidered front	Embroidered back
Technique	Ink printed flat	Stitched thread	Stitched thread
Feel	Smooth, no relief	Raised, thread texture	Raised, thread texture
Medallion	Same design	Same design on the front, about 20 cm wide	Large medallion on the back, about 25 cm wide
Price	from £49.90	from £139.00	from £159.00
Dispatch	2 to 5 working days	within 15 working days	within 15 working days

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Size guide

Between two sizes, take the larger one: the cut is meant to fall loose. Measurements are on the chest, flat, in centimetres then inches.

Size	Half chest	Body length	Sleeve length
S	51	67	59
M	56	70	60.5
L	61	73	62
XL	65	76	63.5
2XL	69	79	65
3XL	73	82	66.5

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Where it is made United Kingdom, Europe and elsewhere: printed to order by our Printify partners in Europe (in England for the tees and the Dikenga hoodies). Embroidered version: embroidered in the United Kingdom.
United States: printed in the US by Printify (tees in Florida, hoodies in California; size 3XL and the Night Skies hoodies ship from Europe).

Delivery Delivery in 5 to 10 working days in the United Kingdom and Europe, 7 to 12 in the United States, 10 to 20 elsewhere. Two to four days of that are the making, because nothing is stocked.

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The story of the design

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.

After the Kongo cosmology documented by K.K. Bunseki Fu-Kiau, African Cosmology of the Bântu-Kôngo.

Part of Collection 01 · Dikenga · The Four Suns. Emblem No. 05 of 5.

Three versions

Printed: the medallion is printed directly on the fabric. It takes the look of embroidery, but it is a flat print: no relief, no thread. Made to order, dispatched in 2 to 5 working days.

Embroidered front: the same medallion stitched in thread on the front, about 20 cm wide, by our embroidery workshop in the United Kingdom. Made to order, dispatched within 15 working days, then 3 to 7 days delivery in the UK (7 to 15 days elsewhere).

Embroidered back: a large medallion, about 25 cm wide, stitched in thread on the back by the same workshop in the United Kingdom. Made to order, dispatched within 15 working days, then 3 to 7 days delivery in the UK (7 to 15 days elsewhere).

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 sits at the chest. Colour: Jet Black. Regular fit, true to size.

Official AWDis size guide, tolerance plus or minus 2 cm.