Ankara refers to native wear made from ... Ankara styles in Ghana blend these African prints with contemporary fashion trends to create stunning outfits for both men and women.

In a sprawling secondhand clothing market in Ghana’s capital, early morning shoppers jostle as they search through piles of garments, eager to pluck a bargain or a designer find from the stalls ...

But neither Ghana's fast-growing population of 34 million people nor its overtaxed infrastructure is equipped to absorb the amount of cast-off attire entering the country. Mounds of textile waste ...

Since then, no-one has asked to be given "that woven matted bag" at the market, they just ask for a Ghana ... western fashion aesthetics while the skirt was designed to mirror a West African ...

Ghanaian Kofi Ansah, who died in 2014, also used traditional textiles, in this case indigo-dyed cloth, and fused West African with designs from elsewhere: Africa Fashion at the V&A He made a name ...