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LIFE AFTER AGOA BAN⎮Agnes Netunze, Uganda’s top leather products exporter speaks out on her next move Mrs Agnes Netunze Kitumba is the proprietor of Arise Kollections, one of Uganda's most successful stories of the African Growth Opportunity Act (AGOA). The company exported leather products to the United States of America under the AGOA duty free initiative for the last one decade until the end of 2023 when Uganda was scrapped off the list of African beneficiaries by the U.S President, Joe Biden. Her company is a social enterprise based in Butto, Bweyogerere on the outskirts of Kampala City.

by Paul Murungi
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Arise Kollections manufactures and distributes high-end leather and textile fashion accessories such as handbags, footwear, jewellery, and hand-woven items to several foreign and local markets. Mrs. Kitumba’s luck came in 2012 when she met Ms Susan Muhwezi, former Uganda AGOA Country Head. She admits that her success under AGOA was born out of a merger that involved two companies; Sseko Design

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