LAGOS, Nigeria -- At Nigeria's Katangua Market, that castaway from the West means big money. Shipping container after shipping container arrive in the market in Lagos, filled to the brim with ...

According to Statista, the revenue of the global fashion market in 2020 was approximately $1.46 trillion U.S. dollars; it is anticipated to increase to about $2.25 trillion by 2025. The USA, which is ...

LAGOS (Reuters) - Marcellina Akpojotor weaves past thumping sewing machines, and leaves a Lagos shop with a bag brimming with discarded fabric. The colourful pieces, which would typically be burned or ...

Adire is a popular tie-dye fabric typically used for traditional outfits worn on special occasions in Nigeria - Copyright AFP TOYIN ADEDOKUN Adire is a popular tie ...

Along the road to Abule-Egba, there is nothing that indicates the presence of a massive market in the area. It is not that hard to find though; across the road from Super Bus-Stop, you can see the ...

Award-winning energy regulatory and environmental lawyer and climate policy expert Summer Okibe has warned that Nigeria ...

The contemporary art world has seen an uptick in artists working with both textiles and with Indigenous craft traditions, but the two strands weave together in the work of Nengi Omuku, whose paintings ...

A country’s soul can be glimpsed in the humming of its factories and measured rhythm of its machines. In China for instance, we’ve seen how mass industrialization rewrote the story of a country with ...

Busayo Olupona didn’t always love the vibrant clothes of her native Nigeria. When she moved from Lagos to California, she showed up for her first day of middle school in a colorful, patterned Nigerian ...

Shipping container after shipping container arrive in the market in Lagos, filled to the brim with plastic-wrapped bales of secondhand clothes from the U.S. and elsewhere. Traders scour, barter, hem ...