Musawa made this statement while speaking at the Creative Africa Nexus Weekend (CANEX WKND) 2024, held in Algiers last week.
In a statement by her Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Nneka Anibeze, Musawa highlighted the need to empower Africa's fashion and textile industry, noting that fabrics such as adire, kente, bogolan, and ankara represent Africa's heritage, pride, and identity.
"Despite this heritage, it is deeply ironic that many of the fabrics we cherish, such as ankara, are predominantly produced outside Africa," Musawa stated.
"Nearly 90 percent of the ankara consumed on our continent is imported, leading to an annual loss of approximately $3 billion to foreign manufacturers. We must change this."
"We must change it" that one na statement nah start it abi develop it not giving speech always abeg mtcheew 😙
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Let's bring the production back home and trademark it then. This is a damn travesty to read.
ReplyDeleteI remembered when my friend lost her job with the Nigerian textile mill company. 😔😔😔. Revive the industries and create and an enabling businesses environment.
ReplyDeleteFor manufacturing to come back, electricity costs must rise at least 4 fold so that it is steady and can be maintained and expanded. Are you ready for that subsidy that leads to the current rationing to be removed?
DeleteI was in Kaduna few years back and was shown the remains of a textile factory. Very huge structure that was overtaken with weed. Like how does anyone sit back and watch such structure collapse? I don't think this country can ever get better. The people that benefitted from old Nigeria decided to ruin it with their greed.
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Do what Ghana is doing, office attirés should be made with Ankara from our own textile factories. Ban importation of Ankara.
ReplyDeleteThe flip side is, THEY will Jack up the price of Ankara just they way THEY did to rice without any tangible reason.
We import virtually everything even Ankara! We need to look seriously into reviving our textile industry.
ReplyDeleteUntil you realise the ankara she is wearing is imported.
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ReplyDeleteBut Nigeria made too get comma most times oo..
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DeleteNot all our products o Chika, those days we had good cotton fabrics made in Nigeria and used for making Tye& dye.
DeleteNigeria does not have a textile industry.
ReplyDeleteIt's still "dem" "dem" lol, they make and break the laws with impunity.
ReplyDeleteLet poor Nigerians breeeath !!!
We import Ankara too?
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Yes na, almost all our Ankara. The Hollandaise & Hgh targets are imported. Our textile mills here used to compete with imoorted ones before but not anymore 👔
DeleteUp to the late 80s, Aswani area of Isolo was full of textile manufacturers, minus Java from Indonesia and Hollandis, most Ankara fabrics were made in 🇳🇬. This notion that a completely import dependent economy can TAX its way to growth is not rooted in economic science, unrealistic & will not work. BAT & cronies are copying the 🇺🇸 of 2018 & beyond template adopted AFTER 300+ years of a near-socialized democracy focused on building world class almost free for the citizenry infrastructure.
ReplyDeleteYes the taxes & expenses here are like 40% or more of your salary at a certain tax bracket, you pay income tax, Medicare tax, SS tax, huge Property tax , homeowners insurance, sales tax &m, fuel a car with $130 or more/week, etc, if you park in the wrong spot you can pay up to $250 to get your car back or half in ticket if not yet towed, However what Bat & crew, forgetting was that this version of 🇺🇸 is due mostly to Ronald Reagan. It was not bad before “Reaganomics” . Most importantly there are jobs to tax people on. You can’t tax the unemployed or underemployed. It’s wickedness! There are no jobs & the few are not even paying living wages! How many indigenous 🇳🇬companies can you work for, make enough salary to drive a new or nearly new car, buy a condo or townhouse off your salary? Minus oil companies, multinationals & banks. Not many. The private sector is mainly briefcase political cronies. FFK PA of 34 years died, please ask FFK if he paid life insurance premium for him or has a pension scheme for him? With exceptions, you can hardly get very comfortable working for many 🇳🇬 owned companies!
Importers/traders/business people need to pool money together to manufacture textiles (including lace), flowers, household appliances etc from scratch in Nigeria with the penchant for Owambes that depreciate the naira. Nigerian traders & businesses have to have some 🇳🇬 pride & adopt a long term view of the market. These terrible successive goverments need to be trashed, stop recycling incompetent rulers & looters. For a start, Bat & ALL goverment officials should use made in 🇳🇬 cars, healthcare, schools etc! It used to be like that! All goverment vehicles up until IBB were Peugeot cars or VW assembled in Nigeria! They all live in a bubble with sycophants telling them what they want to hear! Imagine Biden going for treatment in another country! Even the 🇺🇸President’s official car, the Beast & its decoy, the safest cars on earth are proudly made by 🇺🇸 companies. Cities, counties etc dare not use taxpayer money to buy imported cars, they must buy from Detroit (Ford, Chrysler and GMC)! The fish rots from the head! They fly to the west at the first sign of headache so they don’t know how deteriorated LUTH, UNTH or UCH is! They shamelessly import cars for their entire Congress while youths beat up the small thief that stole a 10k naira item! Why misplace the aggression? If you won’t go after them, at least stop hailing them & their kids, wives & side chics on SM. 🇳🇬cannot sustain importing events decoration, Ankara, fabrics, etc. 🇺🇸left low cost manufacturing to China & others but focuses on submarines, Hi-Tech hardware planes, cars, engines, yatches, ships & daily high tech products but 🇳🇬 makes nothing from the scratch. The goverment official that is talking lacks understanding or commitment to helping the private sector with incentives on the infrastructure required without especially energy costs, security and good roads to facilitate development & won’t raise it at their meetings. Nothing good comes easy, dislodging these band of mediocre looter-rulers (they are not leaders) requires youths to educate themselves & unite not times for half illiterate youths, use YouTube to learn global macro µecons. Chicago is in the midwest US with no ocean but has a massive land port! The “money na water” crowd of donors to untested causes who say they are businessmen can pool money together, build, operate & charge fees and tolls on bad roads, ports etc. They will recover their investments