Africa Fashion Guide
A social enterprise promoting sustainability within Africa's fashion and textile industry.


 
 

 
Business

That’s Right…The Fashion Gurus are Dead Wrong!

So many gurus say it is impossible to source textiles in Africa, that you cannot make quality fashion there, that its unreliable and people only want to rip you off. NOW with the influx of people travelling to Africa last year ...
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6 Reasons Why “Travel Africa” in 2020 is KEY to Grow Your Fashion Business

Right now it’s the final Sunday of 2019 and we enter a new decade and I have new emails for my newsletter list on this series of Source Sundays focused on sourcing textiles, country insights and more video interviews. But...
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HOW I MADE IT IN AFRICA? HERE’S MY UNIQUE AFRICAN JOURNEY….

WHAT’S BEEN YOUR STORY? HERE’S MY UNIQUE AFRICAN JOURNEY…. It started in 2009 when I embarked on a journey I would never have imagined. I travelled to Ghana to explore my heritage from Africa to the Caribbean ...
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7 TOP Fashion Business Opportunities you can Start in Africa today!

Friday’s with you these days helping you to get planning and to catch up on your end of year plans on building your African fashion business ideas and that’s why today’s FASHION BUSINESS FRIDAY will be foun...
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FIVE Myths you have been Sold about Starting an African Fashion business

Can I set your mind free right now? If so please read on. I am going to share with you that there are many things that you do NOT need in order to be “ready” to build your fashion business made in Africa. These a...
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E-commerce for Africa? A profitable Fashion Made in Africa (FMIA) business model.

A general African fashion topic that I just did a Fashion in Five Facebook Live session on my facebook page is about African Fashion retail. PLUS this is one of the panel discussions at our Fashion Africa Conference 2019 editi...
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About Africa Fashion Guide

 

AfricaFashionGuide is an information based platform for fashion professionals, students, retailers, magazines, bloggers and all those interested in African fashion and textiles. It was birthed with the focus to create an awareness campaign that promotes the full supply chain of the African fashion and textile industry with an ethical perspective and create links with the greater global textile industry.

AFG Mission

1-To Support Economic Development in Africa
2-To Promote the use of Ethical and Sustainable Textiles
3-To Encourage Trade Relationships over just Aid
4-To Support WFTO Fairtrade Principles
5-To Encourage Discussion and Implement Action
6-To Build active Relationships between Large Fashion Organisations (designers, fashion schools, media) in UK/Europe and African Designers, Manufacturers, Textiles Suppliers, Artisans and Workshops