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The International Trade in Secondhand Clothing: Managing Information Asymmetry between West African and British Traders

Olumide Abimbola Olumide Abimbola completed his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany. Following a network of secondhand clothing traders from Britain to West Africa, he analyzed their interactions with their objects of trade, and examined the social and cultural institutions that enable and sustain the trade.
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