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‘Fashion Can Change Africa’: The Pioneering Designers Chasing a World of Opportunity

‘Fashion Can Change Africa’: The Pioneering Designers Chasing a World of Opportunity

At a small fashion studio in Lagos, the designers and tailors are busy cutting clean lines through the swathes of fabric. “Cotton T-shirts were the first item we produced,” says designer Oroma Cookey-Gam, co-founder of This is Us, which makes contemporary Nigerian designs, from oversized shirts to jumpsuits and kaftans, using locally produced cotton.

To source the cotton, Cookey-Gam makes a monthly trip to Funtua textile mill, a factory in…


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Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 678

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 678

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Understanding the downstream procedures and complications associated with lung cancer screening