In a small shop nestled inside the heart of Accra, Patience Golo prepares to stitch yards of African wax print for a wedding dress she is making for a client. The fabric is rich in color ...

The media (both fashion and mainstream) tend to refer to them as “African prints” (when not ... and the machine-made wax-print fabric was born. But there was a problem: The machine-made ...

The European monopoly on wax print textiles in Central and West African markets is being undermined ... changes since European firms introduced wax-block printing 150 years ago.