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19.2 Mansa Musa, Fast Fashion and Capitalism: How do our used clothes end up in Africa?

19.2 Mansa Musa, Fast Fashion and Capitalism: How do our used clothes end up in Africa?

Under Islam, Africa produced a man wealthier than Jeff Bezos. Mansa Musa could have been worth $400 billion today, making him twice as wealthy as Jeff Bezos. However, some would argue that his wealth was incalculable. But Islam made Mansa Musa a humble man and a charitable man. He gave away so much money he caused inflation along his pilgrimage to Makkah. Today is a different story. The post explores how secondhand clothes are sold to Africa for billions of dollars only to continue colonialism under a different label.