Kenya’s second-hand clothing industry

Many of the clothes you donate during your annual spring cleaning will end up halfway across the world in places like Kenya, where second-hand clothing is a huge industry. But the future of that industry is being debated after a few controversial remarks by a presidential hopeful. The World’s Halima Gikandi reports from the capital Nairobi.

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