Roots of Africa T-Shirt

Design Description

Africa is coming apart. The East African Rift runs about four thousand miles from the Afar region down through Kenya and Tanzania, and the Somali plate is pulling away from the rest at a few millimetres a year. Given enough time the rift floods and there is a new ocean, with the Horn sitting off the coast as an island.

The continent is rendered entirely as root filament, thousands of fine branching lines, green at the top and deepening through gold into red at the southern tip, with a light burning at the centre. There is a deliberate absence of coastline. The shape appears because the roots stop where they stop. Which is the honest way to draw it, given the edges are provisional and the interior is doing all the deciding.

Premium Everyday Comfort

The art is why you stopped. The shirt is why you'll keep reaching for it.

100% Airlume combed and ring-spun cotton
Combed and ring-spun means the short fibers are pulled out before the yarn is ever twisted —
fewer stray ends, a smoother surface, and print that lands crisp instead of fuzzy. At 4.2 oz
it stays light enough to layer and breathable enough to sit in for a long while.

True-to-size retail fit
Order your usual size. Relaxed crew neck, unisex cut. It works under a jacket, works on its
own, works at the café and the gallery both.

Built to hold its shape
Ribbed knit collar that won't go wavy on you. Quarter-turned construction, so there's no
crease down the center. Tapered shoulders and dual side seams mean it fits better with age,
not worse.

Made by people who were treated well
Bella+Canvas — Fair Labor Association members, Platinum WRAP certified, produced in humane
and sustainable facilities. No sweatshops. It's worth knowing where a thing came from before
you put it on.

Tear-away label
No scratchy tag at the back of your neck. Take it out and forget it's there.

Fabric blends