Asia’s Manufacturers moving to Africa #textiles #shorts

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]My name is Skander. I'm the organizer of the Africa Sourcing and Fashion Week. As a lot of people know, the manufacturing of textile and garment is moving from Asia to Africa these days. It's because of the pricing issue that they have, but at the same time we have a lot of Asian manufacturers who are setting up factories in Africa because of the rate and the price and the cost they can save when they produce and export to the European market.

[00:00:28]The The world in Well, let's say the European and the US market, they are very very much not only quality quality oriented, but also price oriented. And for that, they are searching suppliers and sourcing companies from Africa. And that's why Africa is becoming an important important hub for manufacturing. It is of W that is 12 years old now and with the fifth edition in Nairobi, but 12 the 12th edition in Addis Ababa, the first edition in Dakar, and another one that we do as a partners in the southern part of Africa.

[00:01:07]This is a platform where we invite international buyers and investors to meet with those African manufacturers and garment and the textile. In addition to this, we make sure that the technology is coming here. Manufacturers who do technology are exhibiting here so that those manufacturers of garment in Africa can buy technology, um accessories, and everything that they need to produce garment.

[00:01:33]And And this is how we support. We invite international buyers for every segment of our exhibition. I believe that in about in about 10 years from now, there will be no way just leaving out Africa when it is comes to manufacturing up as a manufacturing continent.

[00:01:51]And not only for the textile and the leather, but for also for a lot of other industries. I highly believe with the Africans that not only are manufacturing in a in a better and a cheaper way than let's say Asians, but also the education uh level that is uh very high in Africa today will support the uh the positioning Africa as one of the uh hub in the world. And I am 100% sure if we see Africa in about 10 year, and especially Kenya, there will be a lot of changes. And people cannot bypass this uh country like Kenya or any other African country uh if they want to do business for the international market.

[00:02:31]As you see in the US right now what's happening with the sanctions that they are giving uh for some of the Asian countries, um it it gives also opportunity for the African because Asians are now setting up factories in Africa so that they can export from Africa to US.

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