Ghanian textile designer Philip Adu-Gyamfi and company are worried about their original designs as Chinese culprits imitate the same and smuggle into Ghana.
Gyamfi lamented that their designs are copied by Chinese and markets were flooded with them.
In Ghana and West Africa, the traditional African prints are very popular as on Sundays, local women wearing bright coloured fabric pass through streets of Accra for attending church services.
As a matter of fact it is a barometer of prestige as well with fine-quality African fabric being an indicator of the status of the individual in society.
African prints to the tune of 150 million yards are sold worth $250m (£131.5m) in Ghana, each year. Steady flow of smuggled Chinese textiles has led the decline of sales of local textiles manufacturers by 50 to 75 percent.
Steve Dutton from Akosombo Textiles Limited (ATL) said that they started to feel the impact of Asian products from 2004 onwards and according to him, it was "horrendous" last year.
It is not only the Ghanians who are worried with the Chinese rush in, but even the European and American manufacturers have not been able to brave their onslaught so far.
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