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Dave's avatar

https://www.statista.com/statistics/236397/value-of-the-leading-global-textile-exporters-by-country/

Developing countries are surprisingly underrepresented in textile exports. That said, a lot of the lowest end of it is in fact moving out of China. This will take time though. Remember that China only became a textile powerhouse three decades ago and it has places that are still quite poor.

That said, we do need to get our shit together as African countries. I doubt we will though. After all, Nigeria was richer than China just 30 years ago. We still haven't industrialised after all that time.

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Ronke Bankole's avatar

Temu is here, and I fear for Jumia. My beloved Jumia.

Also, I think China is driving the organ trafficking market in Africa.

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Dave's avatar

Jumia has survived Alibaba and Amazon though, so I think they'll probably be okay in the long term. Of course they'll likely lose some market share in the process.

Temu and PDD are menaces even in China lol

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Ronke Bankole's avatar

Amazon isn't really here here and Alibaba is optimised for bulk purchasing...also not here here... so we can't really say Jumia survived them.

I have used both Amazon and Alibaba. In fact, Amazon isn't here at all. And neither is Alibaba.

Temu seems to be here here, lol, though I haven't downloaded the app yet.

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Ronke Bankole's avatar

"Here here" means there's a limit to how much I can spend on both Alibaba and Amazon due to CBN policy because they charge in $, while there's no such limit to Jumia.

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Grzegorz LINDENBERG's avatar

Excellent article, thank you.

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Tobi Lawson's avatar

Thank you for reading.

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