"Africa is a vibrant and exciting region for cotton production and our expansion on the continent is demonstrative of that," said Alan McClay, Better Cotton's CEO. "At the heart of our mission are ...

Thirty varieties of cotton have been found growing spontaneously in Africa A mis sionary says he has stood erect under the branches ot a cotton tree in a Goulah village1 so heavily laden with ...

To feed “King Cotton,” more than a million African Americans were carried off into the Deep South. That’s two and a half times the number that were brought to the United States from Africa.

However, most African cotton is exported unprocessed, and the continent currently accounts for less than two percent of global spinning, weaving and knitting capacity, making it a net importer of ...

The goal is to produce the first carbon credits by 2026 with local activities already set in motion. Credit: Shutterstock.

Progress has different meanings for different people. And for people of African descent, the cotton gin was not progress. It was a further entrenchment of enslavement. And for African Americans ...