[allAfrica] Africa grows more than half of the world’s finest long-staple cotton. It earns less than three percent of what that cotton is eventually worth. This is not a trade problem. It is a narrative problem — and allAfrica is setting out to fix it.
Africa: Cotton to Cloth – The Story Africa Has Always Needed to Tell
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