[Paisan]

Those sandals are OK - a little too glitzy, but at least they meet my Rule #1 of fashion sense:

NEVER wear any article of clothing with writing on it.

When did we become a society of walking billboards, advertising on T-shirts, pants with huge labels etc.

I may be showing my age, but I can remember when Ma used to pick through a huge bin of sneakers at Zayres for Keds high-tops at $2.99 a pair.
And we did OK.
Dammit, we walked on the moon!

[Drammach]

While searching for those sandals on the Google, I ran into several references to what the Masai really wear..
While kids generally go barefoot, adults are the ones to wear sandals..
Nowadays they are made from tires...
Yep, that's right, they wear those '60's hippie viet-cong tire-tread sandals..
The traditional sandals were just that.. traditional, probably the same style going back to biblical times and beyond..
Basic leather and rawhide, lacquered to "harden" the leather..

The ones I linked to are more for Euros and tourists than the typical african..