Kantamanto Market in Accra, Ghana, sources secondhand clothing from around the world. The influx of fast fashion, however, is turning unsellable items into massive landfills that threaten public ...

A segment of ultra-fast fashion moves products from design to market within days, releases thousands of new items weekly, and ...

Ghana, located on the southern coast of West Africa, has more than 500 kilometers of coastline that arcs and juts into bays and points. Along this coast are a multitude of surf spots for those willing ...

Ghana is taking a bold step in making an unprecedented move to protect “Kente”, its centuries-old handwoven fabric, by ...

Make Fashion Clean and the Matilda Flow Inclusion Foundation launched the Blue Circle Bag Kickstarter campaign Nov. 3. COURTESY OF MAKE FASHION CLEAN Streaks of blue burst from the center of a ...

ACCRA, Dec 28 (Reuters) - As the sun set on a courtyard of shipping containers in Ghana's capital Accra, young men and women in Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead and tie-dye tees bartered over army surplus ...

Fashion Forum Africa proudly unveils the Alternative Fashion Fabric Fair (Alt.FFF), a groundbreaking three-day trade event ...

NEWBURYPORT, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Clothes for Hope, Inc., a non-profit organization founded by seventeen year old Lauren Sundstrom to benefit local communities, as well as children in Ghana, ...

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Ghana's Kantamanto Market is one of the largest used clothing hubs in the world. More than 30,000 vendors, traders, and retailers work to make profit off of the clothing that arrives in their ports.