The Herding Academy, based in Graaff-Reinet in the Eastern Cape, teaches people to use livestock as a regenerative tool starting with eco-literacy, much of which is inculcated in indigenous farming practices. “Herders are going to become the most important people in...
Angola, a Portuguese-speaking country, is strongly influenced by the cultural output of Brazil, the world’s Lusophone powerhouse. Brazil is often represented as a land of hope in Angola. Angolans can’t get enough of its telenovelas, the intrigue-filled television...
Ahead of the Forbes African Fashion International Fashion Experience in Botswana, Dr Precious Moloi-Motsepe explains why now is the time for social inclusion* and sustainability, and why fashion can facilitate these. Sustainability and social inclusion must be...
If things don’t change fast, the global fashion industry could use a quarter of the world’s remaining global carbon budget to keep warming under 2℃ by 2050, and use 35% more land to produce fibres by 2030. While this seems incredible, it’s not. Over the past 15 years,...
This the first in a five-part #WhoMadeMyClothes series that centres and celebrates the people who make our clothing for this year’s Fashion Revolution Week. From helping her grandmother sew, to becoming the head-seamstress at Hannah Lavery, Patricia Jacobs tells...
