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West Africa’s Fashion Designers Are World Leaders When It Comes to Producing Sustainable Clothes                                         

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“Fast fashion” refers to the quick cycle of mass clothing production that consumes vast resources and creates major waste. While Africa is known for being the dumping ground for much of this waste, little attention has been paid to the great strides that West African fashion designers have made in creating sustainable fashion.

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