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What Uganda’s ‘War’ on Used Clothing Imports Means for Fashion
In 2018, Bobby Kolade moved back from Berlin to Uganda’s capital of Kampala with the ambition of creating a home-grown fashion brand using Ugandan cotton. Things didn’t work out quite the way he imagined. Though the raw material is one of the country’s key export crops, Uganda’s textile industry has been in decline since the 1970s. The country had just two textile mills that could process cotton fabrics. So Kolade turned to something that was available in abundance: secondhand clothes. In his Kampala studio, old clothes are washed, picked apart and transformed into panelled dresses and patchworked sweats for his Buzagihill brand. Under his tongue-in-cheek Return to Sender concept, those de

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