{"id":2366,"date":"2011-08-24T11:43:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T15:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork?p=2366"},"modified":"2011-08-24T11:43:58","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T15:43:58","slug":"curing-the-economic-crisis-with-shoes-and-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/curing-the-economic-crisis-with-shoes-and-bags\/","title":{"rendered":"Curing the Economic Crisis With Shoes and Bags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork\/media01\/2011\/08\/my-asho-african-jewel-by-lisa-lalesso-thumb-430x323-90373.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2367 lazyload\" title=\"my asho african jewel by lisa lalesso-thumb-430x323-90373\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/newyork\/media01\/2011\/08\/my-asho-african-jewel-by-lisa-lalesso-thumb-430x323-90373-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>While the majority of the world is still in an economic disaster, the ones in Africa, at least in the online sales area, are experiencing some growth.\u00a0 Many experts are even calling for investment in the African online retail market.\u00a0 Last year in\u00a0 South Africa online retail experiences a 30% growth and reached four times the rate of physical retail.\u00a0 Online shops such as <a href=\"http:\/\/myasho.com\/index.php?action=x\">My Asho<\/a> which strive to bring local African fashion to a global scale are receiving more sales year after year.\u00a0 Creator, Dolapo Shobanjo, stated that half of the business of My Asho comes from outside of Africa due to a few reasons, &#8220;First, Africans are scattered all over the world and so get very  excited about being able to purchase items they can only access when  they visit home\u2026 And second, the pieces we sell are just so attractive.  Non-Africans, or people without that direct link to Africa, are just  excited to buy unique pieces that are not available anywhere else.&#8221;\u00a0 If this economic growth continues maybe Africa will be able to pull the rest of the world out of crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the majority of the world is still in an economic disaster, the ones in Africa, at least in the online sales area, are experiencing some growth.\u00a0 Many experts are even calling for investment in the African online retail market.\u00a0 Last year in\u00a0 South Africa online retail experiences a 30% growth and reached four times&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,73,75],"tags":[89,81,82,588,94,589,590,591,497,592,593,594],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}