Mwanza Glenn’s name is well known in fashion and designing circles, but his interests are much wider; dancing and acting are just two of them.
Mwanza told us that he first became interested in fashion designing around the age of nine. He recalled that there was a friend of his family’s, the late Rawle Wilson, who was a graduate of the E.R Burrowes School of Art. “Rawley”, as he was called, majored in leather craft and minored in ceramics and he would tutor the young Mwanza in those areas as well as fabric design, textile construction and colour manipulation.
“From those sessions with Rawley I learned how to apply artistry to fashion. I have so much gratitude for this guy that