Harvest Or Violence: In The Used Clothing Trade-In Uganda.

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• A new podcast asks if secondhand Harvest Or Violence clothing is the promised aid – or the new frontier of colonialism and control in Africa.

In London, black bags full to the brim Harvest Or Violence are staples outside charity shops. Or thrown from clothing donation bins in supermarket parking lots. But in Kampala, the capital of Uganda, secondhand clothes are everywhere.

Sold in the streets, markets, and shops worn by almost everyone, men weave. Through the motions of the four motorcycles that were once part of America’s fast-food uniforms while kids in oversized T-shirts that read “The Hen of Amy.” play on the road “until 2015 !! ‘

But why do people wear such clothes in Uganda when the country has been producing its high-quality cotton for over a hundred years? This is one of the complex questions that the new six-part podcast “Vintage or Violence” has to answer. Asking why mud that is not considered suitable for generous businesses in the West is dumped in places like Uganda – and what impact it has on the economy and culture.

Under the direction of fashion designer Bobby Collate and director Nikisi Serumaga. Both from Uganda and living in Europe and North America, the duo interviewed people who had worked in the industry. With a used importer and head of a Ugandan textile company among their guests. Kolade and Serumaga shared their own experiences with used clothing. They looked back on Uganda’s once-thriving home textile industry.