Information Sources
1 Kantamanto Market is one of the largest secondhand clothing markets in the world
2 Kantamanto Market hosts over 30,000 vendors
3 Approximately 15,000,000 garments pass through Kantamanto Market weekly
4 The Journey
5 The average number of garments per clothing bale is 200
6 Containers of clothing cost up to $95,000
7 Ships with imported clothing arrive at Tema Harbour every week
8 Porters known as kayayei transport bales of clothing
9 Clothing bales are sorted into three or four selections by market vendors
10 Criteria for sorting
11 The fourth selection is called asei, or trash
12 The imported clothing is called Obroni Wawu
13 Info about Dead White Man’s Clothes
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