In this new episode of The Wave, we are happy to have four experts sit down and discuss African textiles and how we can make the textile industry in Africa an engine for job creation and income ...

Textiles offer a means of telling biographical stories as well as space for the reinvention of lives, as one sees at the ...

Africa stands on the cusp of a game-changing opportunity to reshape its role in the global textile and apparel industry. According to TradeMap data, the continent currently takes a miniscule size ...

At the same time, the textile industry in Great Britain was ... To feed “King Cotton,” more than a million African Americans were carried off into the Deep South. That’s two and a half ...

Kenya is now the biggest importer of second-hand clothes in Africa, giving the country the dubious distinction of being an ...

Joburg-based fabric and wallpaper brand, Fabric Bank, has launched its Falissie Collection in collaboration with ...

In the 1990s, the textile industry in Nigeria was a key driver of the economy, providing employment to hundreds of thousands in Africa's most populous country. "It was full of activities ...

Nigeria’s textile sector, a thriving industry in the 1990s, has crumbled under the weight of cheap Chinese imports, currency depreciation, and poor government support. Once boasting over 150 textile ...