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Ghana struggling with extreme surplus of secondhand clothes

It takes Nii Armah and his crew of 30 fishermen hours to haul their weighty nets to shore on the bustling Korle-Gonno beach of Ghana's capital Accra. Finally, their catch emerges -- a colossal barracuda and a less welcome bounty of bundles of discarded clothing. Where once nets teemed with fish, they are now tangled with tonnes of clothes thrown...

Fashion

Ghanaian garage start-up targets world's well-shod

When Michael Agyeman-Boaten needed some shoes to match one of his custom-made suits, he turned not to a fancy Italian shoemaker, but to a group of craftsmen working out of a garage in Accra. Ghana is west Africa's second-largest economy and is known more for its export of raw materials than for craftsmanship of luxury items. But Heel the World,...