BBC Africa Live: Updates from the continent Wax print: Africa's pride or colonial legacy? Why were US Democrats wearing Ghana’s kente cloth? The West African nation has reported more than 20,000 ...

I had heard that you could 3D-print wax patterns instead of carving them by hand, but the best machine for the job is an SLA printer which is prohibitively expensive, or so I thought. That ...

From village to cotton field, from mill to market, the story of how one fabric came to symbolise the struggle of a continent and it's people.