Africa

Anyone who says teens are lazy hasn't met the young women of Girlspeak.

“Why have you not been making dresses?”

That was the incredulous question a friend asked Kahindo Mateene.

Three of her friends were standing in the middle of Mateene’s Edgewater apartment, looking at and trying on an assortment of clothes designed by Mateene.

“I’m wearing Kahindo,” Silvia Kariuki said, coining the designer’s first name as the label for the orange and green halter dress she had been reluctant to take off.