33 min
Kantamanto Market-- life and livelihood in the throws of fast fashion's waste streams. Weaving Voices
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Sammy Oteng is a Kantamanto Market organizer in Accra Ghana. The market is a 28 acre site, historically created by the people of Ghana to repurpose and reuse materials. Since the onset of fast fashion, the marketplace has become a dumping ground for the waste of the Global North. In a country of 2 million, the marketplace is cycling orders of magnitude more individual garments than there are people. Beaches and open pits have become the homes for our overproduction.
Weaving Voices is part of Whetstone Radio Collective. Learn more about Weaving Voices here.
Find show notes here.
And transcript here.
Sammy Oteng is a Kantamanto Market organizer in Accra Ghana. The market is a 28 acre site, historically created by the people of Ghana to repurpose and reuse materials. Since the onset of fast fashion, the marketplace has become a dumping ground for the waste of the Global North. In a country of 2 million, the marketplace is cycling orders of magnitude more individual garments than there are people. Beaches and open pits have become the homes for our overproduction.
Weaving Voices is part of Whetstone Radio Collective. Learn more about Weaving Voices here.
Find show notes here.
And transcript here.
33 min