Industrial parks in Africa are using shared water treatment, electricity connections and logistics services to reduce the infrastructure costs manufacturers face when establishing textile...
Talks between African and US officials to review the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) free-trade deal ended Thursday in Côte d’Ivoire with no...
Navidale Textiles, a knitwear firm from Zimbabwe, plans to capture the market of Zambia.
In the recently concluded Zambia Agriculture and Commercial Show (ZACS), Navidale...
The Angolan Government officially completed the recovery of three strategic textile factories—Textang II (Luanda), África Têxtil (Benguela), and the former Satec unit (Dondo, Cuanza...
Mozambique is looking for ways to monetize the facilities of former textile factory Textáfrica–Sociedade Têxtil de Vila Pery, according to President Filipe Nyusi, who...
History of Textile, garment and fashion industry in Africa
the African fabric industry is very old, and dates as far back as 5,000BC when ancient Egyptians...
▶︎ In Brief:
West Africa's textile traditions span over a millennium, blending handwoven cotton, raffia, and wild silk with indigo dyeing, strip weaving, and symbolic...