--Kenneth Harrow
Oga Harrow,
This sentence caught my attention, and I warmed to it but then it also left me wondering about the cultural appropriation of an African local market by an American scholar. Except there are stuffs about your birth and upbringing I am not aware of.
Adeshina Afolayan
trip to dakar/
it was wonderful seeing them open up to africa, and learn to love. i
took them to our local market, naturally, and showed them the african
pagnes--fabrics. only to discover...they were all made a china
a shock
ken
On 6/4/16 2:36 AM, kwame zulu shabazz wrote:
> Peace, sister Gloria.
>
> I was just talking to a successful Nigerian tailor and shop owner in Chicago who specializes in African clothing. She keeps a few a Nigerian-made textiles on hand, but most of her fabric is produced in China and India because the labor is much cheaper in those nations. I wonder if and how we can bring these industries back to Africa?
>
> Forward ever,
>
> Brother Shabazz
>
--
kenneth w. harrow
professor of english
michigan state university
department of english
619 red cedar road
room C-614 wells hall
east lansing, mi 48824
ph. 517 803 8839
harrow@msu.edu
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