We listen, share and talk with some of the most interesting people we can, innovators, practitioners and experts.
7 October 2025
Dr Philippa Notten | Insights from Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) on sustainable and circular textiles
Dr Philippa Notten from The Green House, a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) expert, presents this keynote from the 2025 Africa Textile Talks, explaining how LCAs work and why they matter. She shares surprising insights from studying the full value chain of a product, explores the opportunities and trade-offs of reuse and sharing models, and highlights the challenges of textile recycling.
1 October 2025
Leandi Mulder | A new approach to fashion education in South Africa
Fashion designer and educator Leandi Mulder shares her journey from discovering forgotten looms in a university storeroom to shaping a new approach to fashion education in South Africa. In this talk, she highlights the need to move from an aesthetic-based to a textile-based design approach. When students know the origin of their fibres, they design differently and more sustainably.
1 October 2025
Yayra Agbofah | Fighting fashion waste in Kantamanto Market
In this episode, we hear from Yayra Agbofah, founder of The Revival and winner of the H&M Foundation’s Global Change Award. From Accra’s Kantamanto Market, he’s taking on the influx of secondhand clothing waste arriving from the global north.
1 October 2025
Maria Caley | From leather to trade cloth
In our first podcast, you can listen to Maria Caley’s keynote from Africa Textile Talks 2025. Maria is a lecturer at the University of Namibia, and her talk was titled From leather to trade cloth: Namibian indigenous aesthetic politics in textiles