#BNSDigitalSummit21 - Exploring Africa’s Potential As A Global Fashion Manufacturing Hub

Fashion has evolved into a really global industry. The global fashion sector includes China, India, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the former Soviet bloc. However, Africa, which is home to one in every seven people on the planet, remains on the periphery of the manufacturing and consuming sectors. Although Africa continues to face economic, geopolitical, and social challenges, a third of the continent's one billion people are now upwardly mobile, and this massive, yet fragmented market of 55 independent countries will become a lucrative frontier opportunity as a source of production and a consumer market for fashion over the next decade. What would it take for Africa to become a key part of the global fashion system? Join BellaNaija Style's Head of Content, Mary Edoro in conversation with Founder of Style House Files, Omoyemi Akerele.