Kenya is now the biggest importer of second-hand clothes in Africa, giving the country the dubious distinction of being an easy dumping ground for used apparel while it struggles to revive its ...

Traders selling ... citizens through a Kenya Gazette on June 3, 1947 after it emerged that some Japanese manufacturers had conspired with some agents to import low quality clothes.

Traders imported 177,664.4 tonnes of second-hand clothes in 2022 valued at Ksh19.9 billion, according to the Kenya National Bureau of Standards (KNBS). China is the largest source of imported ...