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Nigeria’s textile industry used to generate over $2billion annually in the 80s. Since then, there has been a 75% decline in textile production.

These woes have been attributed to the influx of cheap Chinese textiles, high production costs, and dominance by external players.

One of the biggest manufacturers of African print fabrics is Vlisco, a Dutch company that has been around for nearly two centuries.
Egali Senayah, a textile merchant here at Makola market in Accra. She has been selling African print fabrics since 1998, as it has been a family business

The Kente cloth industry has projected Ghana on the global map, both socially and economically.

I’m off to Bonwire, the home town of Ghana’s kente cloth. Kente weaving is the main occupation of people living in there.