I have not been able to cover textile use in Africa. Africa doesn’t have climates that are able to preserve textiles the way parts of Europe and Asia do, but that doesn’t mean the textile history of Africa isn’t just as rich. The oldest site they have excavated is at Kissi, which was founded around 500bce and then abandoned, to be then occupied nearly constantly from the first century ce to the 12th century ce. The site is humid, and thus metal, glass and stone remain for modern archeologists to find, while textiles and even most ceramics have disappeared from the record.
What textiles, leather and fur have been found resulted from the large amount of metal items they were buried with. The large amount of copper objects corroded, and the resulting mineral salts went into the organic matter. This aids in the preservation of textiles. The found bits are too small to guess at how they were used, but it does let us know that they did exist.
The textile remnants seem to be entirely made from hair and wool, most likely from camel. And, just as in other sites, while there is spun thread and woven fabric, spindles and looms have not survived. While some archaeologists think this is because the people in ancient Kissi imported all their thread and fabric, it is more likely that there is simply no historic record of the tools.
An interesting aside about Kissi in particular is that the bulk of the fabric found at a site that dates from about 500bce to 1100 ce is all one weave, called Rep.

We do know that much later, the people of Kissi imported cotton as a luxury, and was worn only by the wealthiest, which poor people wore hides and grasses.
But a reminder- Africa is a huge continent, and this is only one site from the southern part of western Africa that has been excavated that luckily had some rare fabric saved. It’s important to keep in mind that Africa is not devoid of a rich history, but rather has few sites that have been found that stand the test of time (outside of the very famous ones we all know and love).I look forward to more sites being discovered, giving us more information about early people in Africa.