Why is Accra a dumping ground for global waste?
The founder of circularity lab The Revival makes sense of a fashion crisis in Accra
Tag: Africa Textile Talks
From leather to trade cloth: Namibian indigenous aesthetic politics in textiles
Maria Caley's presentation at the 2025 Africa Textile Talks
Africa Textile Talks Day 2: Wool, nature and people
Passionate farmers and industry experts produce one of South Africa’s most valuable exports: wool. Annually the extended wool community meets at the WoolCycle networking event to discuss achievements, challenges and opportunities. This year Cape Wools SA invited Twyg to host...
Africa Textile Talks Day 1: Circular solutions for South Africa’s textile industry
Circularity was the focus of the first day of Africa Textile Talks 2025 on 29 July at the V&A Watershed in Cape Town. A broad range of industry players from small businesses and independent designers to representatives from national retailer...
Explore Threads of Renewal
This year Africa Textile Talks extended its offering with an exhibition titled Threads of Renewal curated by Twyg’s fashion editor, Tandekile Mkize. Open for the duration of the talks programme, 29 July – 2 August, the exhibition created a space...
Good Good Good takes Mekeka Designs barkcloth to Paris Fashion Week
At the Africa Textile Talks in August 2024, Ugandan textile experts Josephine Mukasa and Pamela Kyagera presented barkcloth—an indigenous and renewable Ugandan textile—to an audience of 200 in Cape Town. The designers from Good Good Good were in attendance, and...
Threads of Africa: A Tapestry of Tradition and Modernity
African fashion is an expression and celebration of the continent’s identities, cultures and creativity. At the recent Africa Textile Talks in Cape Town, Merchants on Long, one of the event sponsors, collaborated with Twyg to create a fashion installation to...
Join us for the first Slow Fashion Festival in Cape Town
Along with our partners the V&A Watershed, we’re hosting our first Slow Fashion Festival in Cape Town. Join us on 17 August from 10am – 4pm for a day of slow fashion experiences (and some music and dancing) at the...
What to expect at Africa Textile Talks 2024
Africa Textile Talks 2024 is focussed on textile practices that inspire us to imagine and transition to a post-fossil fuel future. Our thoughtfully curated programme introduces attendees to makers and thinkers from South Africa and across the African continent who...
Book your tickets for Africa Textile Talks 2024
Are you ready to explore how fashion and textiles can help us live in harmony with nature and with each other? Are you interested in the future of a post-fossil fuel fashion and textile industry? Join Nkwo Onwuka, a seasoned...
Artist Gina van der Ploeg connects textiles to land
For Cape Town-based textile artist, Gina van der Ploeg, textiles are not an end in themselves. Instead, she honours the entire process of making textiles by exploring the different parts of the textile supply chain in her art. “It’s crazy...
6 Takeaways from Africa Textile Talks 2023
African textiles are woven pathways to a more sustainable world. With the shared acknowledgment that the production of textiles can contribute to transforming the material conditions of livelihoods across the continent, about 200 people gathered for the first-of-its-kind Africa Textile...
The Or Foundation shows us who carries the burden of fast fashion’s failings
There’s a denim jacket in Sammy Oteng’s wardrobe that he has a particular tender attachment to. It’s not that the jacket fits just right, or that it makes him feel a certain way when he wears it. It matters because...
Africa Textile Talks 2023 prepares to explore the future of sustainable textile ecosystems
The global textile industry has become one of the most socially and environmentally harmful industries in the world. Challenging these impacts begins with sharing ideas and inspiration for sustainable material worlds.Taking place on 17 August at the V&A Waterfront, in...
Rethread Africa turns farm waste into future-fit fabrics
Some deep breaths you take change you forever. For Charles Oyamo it was inhaling the scent of fertile soil from the lands his parents worked in the villages of Migori County in South West Kenya. “People mostly plant sugar cane...