{"id":3281,"date":"2024-08-16T17:53:17","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T17:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/premier-league-the-sierra-leonean-behind-arsenals-new-kit\/"},"modified":"2024-08-16T17:53:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T17:53:17","slug":"premier-league-the-sierra-leonean-behind-arsenals-new-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/premier-league-the-sierra-leonean-behind-arsenals-new-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League: The Sierra Leonean behind Arsenal\u2019s new kit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ahead of the new Premier League season, Arsenal have released a new kit celebrating the club&#8217;s connection with Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The man behind it is fashion designer Foday Dumbuya, who was born in Sierra Leone and grew up in London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But can the Africa-inspired kit push the Gunners to the league title?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Africa&#8217;s Mark Wilberforce visited the designer at his shop in London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Filmed and edited by Ameer Ahmed<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/videos\/ceq5rv0j591o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the new Premier League season, Arsenal have released a new kit celebrating the club&#8217;s connection with Africa. The man behind it is fashion designer Foday Dumbuya, who was born in Sierra Leone and grew up in London. But can the Africa-inspired kit push the Gunners to the league title? BBC Africa&#8217;s Mark Wilberforce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3283,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281\/revisions\/3283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}