Tailoring in Africa - A Gold Mine

One of the biggest employers of labor in Africa is the tailoring industry. There is no nook and cranny of an African neighborhood, from the rural to the urban areas that you won't find a tailor. Tailoring, as a craft, is the source of livelihood for many families across Africa.The tailoring profession is one industry that has clients all over because everyone needs the services of a tailor. Amazingly, both the poorly skilled and highly skilled tailors have their own clients. The rural tailors and the urban tailors also have their own clients. One now asks, as an industry that has jobs for everyone, why are many tailors poor? Why is tailoring commonized? Why are so many skilled tailors not making enough money? Why are many tailors merely surviving? Why do most tailors retire poor? Are there things that the majority of African tailors are not doing right? Why are so many tailors working like elephants and eating like ants?This book seeks to answer the above questions and more. It also seeks to proffer solutions on how to succeed as a tailor in Africa. My fifteen years of experience in the tailoring industry have offered me the opportunity to observe and have first-hand information on why so many tailors fail and why others succeed. This book is based on both research and experience. It is a total compilation of a fifteen years experience in the tailoring industry. I can boldly assert that a skillful tailor has no reason to be poor. Tailoring is a gold mine, unfortunately many of us do not know this. This book will teach you everything you need to know about tailoring as a business and howto succeed in it. It is not enough to have a tailoring skill because the skill in itself is not enough to make you a success. You need the business knowledge of it. Everyone who has an inclination in the fashion industry which includes the tailor, the aspiring tailor, the fashion designer or even the fashion lover will have something to take homefrom this book.For tailors and aspiring tailors, this book will help you discover the business of tailoring and how you can make a big success out of it. Read more