Africa's love affair with thrift fashion is no longer a side story in the global clothing trade; it has become serious business. ・Africa’s thrift fashion economy has grown into a multi-million-dollar ...

In recent years the global secondhand apparel market for clothing and shoes has grown exponentially. In 2002, used clothing exports were worth $1.4 billion (Sh166 billion). Despite a slowdown during ...

A fire devasted one of the world's largest secondhand clothing markets in Accra, Ghana. Kantamanto Market receives 15 million garments weekly and employs some 30,000 people. An advocacy group urged ...

JOHANNESBURG, Aug 5 (Reuters) - China-founded e-commerce retailers Shein and Temu have captured a combined 3.6% share of South Africa's retail, clothing, textile, footwear and leather (CTFL) market, ...

A huge fire that erupted at a clothing market in Ghana’s capital Accra has destroyed hundreds of livelihoods and businesses. The fire at Kantamanto Market – one of the world’s largest secondhand ...

JOHANNESBURG, March 25 (Reuters) - South Africa's Pepkor (PPHJ.J), opens new tab said on Tuesday it will buy fashion businesses Legit, Swagga and Style and homewares brand Boardmans from privately ...

An upcycled fashion and thrifting festival in Ghana is called Obroni Wawu October, using a phrase that in the local Akan language means “dead white man’s clothes.” Organizers see the event as a small ...

Adwoa Owusuaa Bobie receives funding from the Foundation Omou Dilly and DANIDA. Sustainable fashion means clothes being produced and consumed in ways that are socially responsible. But the ...

Tanya Zack does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

To walk along the main road in Ruaka, a town on the outskirts of Nairobi, is to glimpse the extremes of African shopping. Market stalls selling vegetables and charcoal spill onto the street. In the ...