If you're planning to visit any of these five African countries, there's one item you should definitely leave at home: ...

The finely woven material has become the defining symbol of Ghana and Ghanaians and, indeed, of Africa, and for Black people in general. Time was when the kente was a strictly royal cloth reserved ...

Donating second-hand clothes has had a negative effect on textile industries in African countries. The Rwandan President, Paul Kagame, has said: "We are put in a situation where we have to choose ...

"My mother had bought the fabric during one of her research trips to West Africa and found a tailor to make a custom shirt," Diop says. But because the process was costly and time-consuming ...

It costs 3,300 naira (around $2.20), half the price of a locally produced fabric. As Africa's most populous nation grapples with high inflation that has left many struggling, Chinese counterfeit ...