See The 14 Designers Selected For African Fashion Futures Incubator & A Grant Funding Of $5000 Each

Impact Fund For African Creatives in collaboration with the African Fashion Foundation in Ghana and implementing partner Seedstars have selected their first cohort of 14 African fashion designers to join the African Fashion Futures Incubator.

According to the organization, the African Fashion Foundation is a not-for-profit that empowers fashion designers and creative professionals from Africa and its diaspora to succeed in the global fashion industry, among other contemporaries.

The AFF In conjunction with the IFFAC (Impact Fund For African Creatives) will be investing in private small and medium-sized enterprises specializing in the creative, fashion, and lifestyle businesses and industries in Africa. The Fund aims to address a lack of capital and management skills in young brands.

The fashion designers joining this programme will receive training and grant funding. The incubator will equip new, up-and-coming fashion start-ups with the necessary skills and resources to create a brand founded on ethical principles regarding people, place, and profit. According to Onyinye Fafi Obi, Project Director of the African Fashion Foundation.

The participating designers are:

Omafume Niemogha of Pepper Row (Nigeria)
Travis Obeng-Casper of AJABENG (Ghana)
Cynthia Otiyo-Abila of Cynthia Abila Studios (Nigeria)
Jason Jermaine Asiedu of Jermaine Bleu (Ghana)
Orire Aleshinloye of Oríré (Nigeria)
Kusi Kubi of PALM WINE IceCREAM (Ghana)
Ebuka Omaliko of Maliko (Nigeria)
Kelvin Vincent of Anku Studio (Ghana)
Abiola Adeniran-Olusola of Abiola Olusola (Nigeria)
Jafaru Larry (Ghana
Victor Anate of VICNATE (Nigeria)
Nadia Eman Ibrahim of TABOu (Ghana)
Aline Mukamusoni of AMIKE (Rwanda)
George Tetteh of Atto Tetteh (Ghana)

The designers are set to take part in an exponential and transformative program over a 5-month incubation period to scale their ventures. Through a tried and tested methodology, the fashion designers will also receive hands-on support from industry experts across a global network as well as grant funding of up to $5000 each and additional fundraising support.

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