Wednesday, November 3, 2010

@SURevolution is visiting SIAO (Salon International De L’Artisanat de Ouagadougou), the world’s largest African handcrafts fair Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso


With 6000 exhibitors from all over Africa and a theme around African handcrafts, youth and employment, this bi-annual show is curated around the issues of quality of the products and creativity. Handcrafts are crucial for African economies. In Burkina Faso alone, it constitutes 30% of GDP, one million people work in the sector and 500,000 are women. 

Click here to preview some of the participants:








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