{"id":438938,"date":"2011-06-09T19:35:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T19:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/09\/minister-asks-african-fabric-designers-to-improve-on-their-products\/"},"modified":"2011-06-09T19:35:40","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T19:35:40","slug":"minister-asks-african-fabric-designers-to-improve-on-their-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/09\/minister-asks-african-fabric-designers-to-improve-on-their-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister asks African fabric designers to improve on their products"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"59.8916554509\">\n<p>You Are Here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\">Home<\/a> \u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/category\/general-news\/\" title=\"View all posts in General News\" rel=\"category tag\">General News<\/a> \u00bb Minister asks African fabric designers to improve on their products<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>Page last updated at Thursday, June 9, 2011 19:19 PM \/\/ <\/span><\/div>\n<p>Mr Alexander Asum-Ahensah, Minister of Chieftaincy and Culture has urged African fabric designers to introduce innovation to their products to achieve the desire impact globally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfrican fabrics in terms of quality and design are very attractive and are cherished all over the world, but needed to be improved upon to compete with others out there,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Asum-Ahensah gave the advice in a speech read on his behalf at the second edition of \u201cAfrican Fashion Night\u201d, to climax the commemoration of the African Unity Month on the theme: \u201cCulture and Development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that African fabrics could take the central stage in the world if Africans integrated their ideas and cross-bred their research works to come out with well-designed fabrics that would be attractive worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Asum-Ahensah commended fabric designers, especially those from the polytechnics and expressed the hope that the sector would in the near future be a foreign exchange earner for the country.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Bernice Deh- Kumah, Acting Executive Director of the Du Bois Centre commended the foreign missions in Ghana, Ghana Textiles Printing Limited and Shanbrad Limited for supporting the Centre to organise the programme.<\/p>\n<p>Source: GNA<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>| | <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Currently%20reading%20http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/2011\/06\/09\/minister-asks-african-fabric-designers-to-improve-on-their-products\/\" title=\"Click to send this page to Twitter!\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tweet This!<\/a> | <\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h4>Comments<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the rest here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/2011\/06\/09\/minister-asks-african-fabric-designers-to-improve-on-their-products\/\" title=\"Minister asks African fabric designers to improve on their products\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minister asks African fabric designers to improve on their products<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> You Are Here: Home \u00bb General News \u00bb Minister asks African fabric designers to improve on their products Page last updated at Thursday, June 9, 2011 19:19 PM \/\/ Mr Alexander Asum-Ahensah, Minister of Chieftaincy and Culture has urged African fabric designers to introduce innovation to their products to achieve the desire impact globally. \u201cAfrican fabrics in terms of quality and design are very attractive and are cherished all over the world, but needed to be improved upon to compete with others out there,\u201d he added. Mr Asum-Ahensah gave the advice in a speech read on his behalf at the second edition of \u201cAfrican Fashion Night\u201d, to climax the commemoration of the African Unity Month on the theme: \u201cCulture and Development.\u201d He pointed out that African fabrics could take the central stage in the world if Africans integrated their ideas and cross-bred their research works to come out with well-designed fabrics that would be attractive worldwide<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":438939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-438938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Minister asks African fabric designers to improve on their products - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/09\/minister-asks-african-fabric-designers-to-improve-on-their-products\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Minister asks African fabric designers to improve on their products - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"You Are Here: Home \u00bb General News \u00bb Minister asks African fabric designers to improve on their products Page last updated at Thursday, June 9, 2011 19:19 PM \/\/ Mr Alexander Asum-Ahensah, Minister of Chieftaincy and Culture has urged African fabric designers to introduce innovation to their products to achieve the desire impact globally. \u201cAfrican fabrics in terms of quality and design are very attractive and are cherished all over the world, but needed to be improved upon to compete with others out there,\u201d he added. 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