This is the first time Accra Fashion Week 2016 held the Seminar on the second hand clothes which has been a controversial issue in the Ghanian Fashion Industry. The fashion industry has been facing undoubtedly the slow decline of the textile manufacturing industry and the East African Community Summit plans to intervene and revive the dormant industry before it is too late.

By 2019, Tanzania wishes to develop skilled labour force through the approving a proposed ban to boost the manufacturing industry and help the region’s economy to grow.

Tanzania is proud to be the first country to implement this kind of bans. The training programmes will focus on young Tanzanians who will be trained in different sét of skills and employed in clothes and footwear manufacturing factories. Those are expected to opened soon, in line with the government’s industrialization plan – Jenista Mhagama – Misnister of State said.

On the other hand, there is discussion on how the ban will affect the poor those whose income allows them to buy cheap as well as second hand clothes. Besides the economic and policy considerations, critics of second-hand clothes and goods often raise the health element and argue the goods are a health hazard, particularly second-hand underwear seen by some as unhygienic.

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