Like the omushanana, most of Uganda's traditional clothes are impractical. My experience is that they constrain the wearer. Take the busuuti, for instance; it is so long that if you wear it on a ...

Without them the clothing industry in Uganda would have done much better by creating fresh and multiple affordable designs, ... to create fabric patterns based on traditional Ugandan motifs.

Fast fashion has led to a glut of low-value clothing that inordinately burdens developing countries, as shown here at a local market in the Entebbe district of Kampala, Uganda, in 2018.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, a semi-authoritarian leader who has held power since 1986, declared in August that he was banning imports of used clothing, saying the items are coming "from ...

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, a semi-authoritarian leader who has held power since 1986, declared in August that he was banning imports of used clothing, saying the items are coming "from ...

Kolade says that about 80 per cent of all clothing sales in Uganda are of second-hand items discarded in wealthier nations, where fast-fashion dominates. In Kampala, ...

But the volume of donated clothing is becoming unmanageable, and critics are calling for action. What Uganda’s war on second-hand clothes means for fashion Skip to main content ...

“I have declared war on second-hand clothes to promote African wear,” the President said during the opening of 16 factories at an industrial park late last month, according to Ugandan ...

According to the Uganda Dealers in Used Clothing and Shoes Association, there are a huge number of jobs directly and indirectly involved in the second-hand clothing supply chain.