African Continental Free Trade Area: Opportunities for African fashion entrepreneurs

The African Development Bank’s latest Fashionomics Africa webinar attracted well-known designers and industry experts to discuss the potential of the newly launched African Continental Free Trade Area to support the growth of the African fashion industry, regionally and globally. Among the established designers were Laduma Ngxokolo, the founder of MaXhosa Africa, whose designs are the main wardrobe feature of the movie Coming 2 America, the much-anticipated sequel to Eddie Murphy’s 1988 classic; and Mahlet Afework, the creative mind behind the Ethiopian brand, Mafi. […] Read More