When she first began to market clothing and fabric in Guyana in 2007 her clientele was predominantly older Guyanese. These days, she says, there is a greater interest in African fashion among ...

An assessment of the African presence in Guyana becomes topical annually around the time of the anniversary of Emancipation. Although Emancipation, its meaning, its cultural, social and political ...

A new report has shed light on the second-hand clothing (SHC) sector in Africa, revealing an estimated 1.28m people employed in the trade, with 2.5m Africans dependent on income from the sector.

Catherine McKinley traveled through nine West African countries a decade ago to track the history of indigo, the blue dye that was made very valuable by the African slave trade. Host Michel Martin ...