The role of storytelling in African fashion By Isaiah Mwangala In a small atelier outside Dakar, Senegal, roughly fifty...
Profiles designers and artists blending upcycled materials with traditional African craftsmanship, reshaping fashion as both cultural expression and environmental statement.
Kenya’s junk sculptor makes art from what others discard By Mugo Murathe In Nairobi’s industrial quarters, where electronic waste...
Kenya’s traditional fabric craft is finding new purpose in the age of sustainability By Fatuma Yusuf Kenya’s batik revival...
Kenya’s taste for second-hand clothes is creating mountains of waste By Yusuf Abdalla Kenya has emerged as one of...
Can African fashion go green without losing its lustre? By Annette Amollo Africa’s fashion industry, long overshadowed by global...
A new design movement is making African trash look expensive Compiled by Stephen Irungu for Ethical Business In a...
How Kenyan artisans can sell to the West’s guilt-ridden fashion buyers Compiled by Ethical Business Team The global sustainable...
Each month, thousands of tonnes of second-hand clothes arrive at Mombasa Port, tightly packed in plastic-wrapped bales. For many...
Kenya’s women artisans prove heritage can scale as industry When the beadwork of Maasai women appears in capsule collections...
How one photographer’s 1960s images of East Africa reveal the breathtaking speed of environmental transformation In 1967, Mirella Ricciardi...