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In 2018, Bobby Kolade moved back from Berlin to Uganda’s capital of Kampala with the ambition of creating a home-grown fashion brand using Ugandan cotton.
Things didn’t work out quite the way he imagined. Though the raw material is one of the country’s key export crops, Uganda’s textile industry has been in decline since the 1970s. The country had just two textile mills that could process cotton fabrics.
So Kolade turned to something…
