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UGANDA'S LEADER CALLS FOR HALT TO WESTERN USED CLOTHING IMPORTS IN EAST AFRICA
The Daily Guardian
|October 17, 2023
Jostling for space, people jam the crowded footpaths crisscrossing a massive open market in Uganda's capital. They are mostly looking for second hand clothing, sifting through underwear for pairs that seem new or trying on shoes despite getting pushed around in the crush.
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Downtown Kampala's Owino Market has long been a go-to enclave for rich and poor people alike looking for affordable but quality-made used clothes, underscoring perceptions that Western fashion is superior to what is made at home. These clothes have been discarded by Europeans and Americans, then shipped to African countries by middlemen.
It's a multimillion-dollar business, with some two-thirds of people in seven countries in East Africa having "purchased at least a portion of their clothes from the secondhand clothing market", according to a 2017 US Agency for International Development study, the most recent with such details. Despite the popularity, secondhand clothes are facing increasing pushback.
This story is from the October 17, 2023 edition of The Daily Guardian.
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