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Dead White Man's Clothes
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Dead White Man's Clothes

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In Accra, Ghana, secondhand clothes shipped from the West arrive by the ton at Kantamanto Market, one of the largest used-clothing markets in the world. Locals call the bales "obroni wawu", dead white man's clothes, because no one could imagine giving away so much wearable clothing while still alive. The film follows the market's kayayei, women who carry the bales on their heads, and the traders and tailors who sort, repair, and resell what they can, while showing what happens to the rest: mountains of textile waste burned or dumped on beaches and in waterways, some of it visible from space. Interviews with market workers, environmental researchers, and advocates including members of the OR Foundation lay out how fast fashion's overproduction in Europe and North America becomes an ecological and economic burden in Ghana. The camera moves from crowded market stalls to polluted shorelines, tracing a supply chain most shoppers never see past the donation bin, and asking who actually pays for cheap clothes once they are thrown away.