Africa Should Build Joint Value Chains Instead of Exporting Raw Materials: Kenyan Expert

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Africa Should Build Joint Value Chains Instead of Exporting Raw Materials: Kenyan Expert

Working together, Africa can distribute through professional logistics across Africa, backed by the AfCTA, helping to produce yarn and fabric and then garments and fashion, and so on, CEO of Trade and Fairs East Africa Ltd Skander Negasi told Sputnik Africa on the sidelines of Africa Sourcing and Fashion Week Addis 2026.

"Cotton [...] in West Africa is exported to China. And the Chinese have those technologies that can clean the cotton. And that cleaned cotton comes back as a fiber to Africa with a margin that goes through to Asia."

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