As the continent’s biggest sourcing event opens in Addis Ababa later this week, the conversation around Africa’s textile future gains renewed urgency. Ethiopia, with its young workforce and expanding industrial base, remains both a test case and a symbol—of ambition, resilience, and uneven progress. From cotton growers and factory workers to innovators and trade organisers, the stories here trace a country learning to stitch opportunity into identity. This texfash.com series explores how Ethiopia’s journey reflects a wider African drive to shape its own fashion and sourcing destiny.

Europe's textile recycling industry faces unprecedented challenges despite growing waste volumes and regulatory pressure. Leading industry experts reveal critical gaps in traceability, technology deployment, and policy implementation that threaten circular economy ambitions across the continent.

Welcome to a New World Trade Order. US President Donald Trump has walked his talk —  the promise made during his election campaigns. Trade pundits failed to read the obvious, failed to prepare for what should have been expected and the reeling from the ‘shock and awe’ is as chaotic as it was during Covid. From a baseline 10% to a steep hike going up to as much as 49% (Cambodia and Lesotho), the tiz in the supply chains will continue to roil as the textile-fashion-footwear industry recalibrates to the new challenges. The texfash Spotlight this April is on the rock and roll that the tariffs will make industry dance to.