Apparel companies and industry insiders warn that Africa risks a once-in-a-generation shift away from Chinese manufacturing passing it by, with an estimated 240,000 to 290,000 jobs such as ...

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 ...

Kenya Wiley is a policy counsel and fashion law professor at Georgetown University. She previously served as counsel and senior policy adviser for the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental ...

Pepkor Holdings Ltd. has increased its lead as South Africa’s biggest seller of mobile phones using prepaid wireless plans, ...

In a tour of the African Fashion exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, designer Reni Folawiyo posed a question: “What does it look like creatively, economically, and politically for us to decide to ...

There is an increasing need for inexpensive clothing in the African region. Yet at the same time, secondhand clothing imports are contributing significantly to problems of plastic waste and waste ...

Without the duty-free benefits that the trade preferences program provides to nations such as Ghana, Lesotho, Mauritius and South Africa, apparel purveyors have fewer incentives to turn to the ...

The South African apparel industry has welcomed the government’s new regulations on de minimus rules that will make it more costly for Chinese retailers like Temu and Shein to bring in goods at ...

With those stats as a backdrop, Dr. Sheng Lu, professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Fashion and Apparel Studies at the University of Delaware, said Africa’s opportunity ...

The South Africa Apparel Market is experiencing sustained growth, driven by factors such as increasing disposable incomes, rapid urbanization, and the expansion of e-commerce. As consumer preferences ...

Apparel companies and industry insiders warn that Africa risks a once-in-a-generation shift away from Chinese manufacturing passing it by, with an estimated 240,000 to 290,000 jobs such as ...