You’ve heard of Kílẹ̀ńtàr; here are the intra-African trade gaps it navigates to scale 

Michelle Adepoju never knew she would be in fashion. But in 2018, she found herself in Burkina Faso, searching for fabric production sites. With a translator in hand, in a non-English speaking country, she approached a man selling a few streets away from where she lived. He offered to search the city with her, and she got in his car. They drove around for an hour before discovering a weaving…