No. 08 / The Series
A Series on Policy

The Sovereign Stack

Trade, IP, tariffs and the institutional architecture of African fashion, art and design.

Industries are built on rules. The Sovereign Stack reports on the policy layer beneath African fashion, art and design: AfCFTA and the textile trade, intellectual property and cultural authorship, tariffs and customs, who controls representation at scale, and the public institutions and private accords that decide what can be made, sold and exported. Reporting on the architecture, ongoing.
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