The most fashionable items in African wardrobes may be the "second-hand goods" you throw away.

Nowadays, many China people go to Africa to do business, settle down and travel. If you live in Kenya for a long time, you will find an interesting thing, that is, many Chinese characters are printed on the clothes worn by local residents.

The charm of Chinese characters is far beyond your imagination. People abroad like to tattoo Chinese characters on their bodies and wear clothes printed with Chinese characters, which they think is fashionable. However, in some African countries, such as Kenya, clothes printed with Chinese characters have developed into a unique cultural landscape, which makes China people far away feel proud and sometimes makes people laugh.

I remember when a travel blogger was traveling in Kenya, he saw a black brother wearing the uniform of his alma mater and mistook him for an alumnus. Only after asking did I know that his clothes were bought through the second-hand market.

In Africa, second-hand clothes have a big market because of their good quality and low price. There you will see all kinds of people wearing second-hand school uniforms, and those who don't know think it is a local branch school.

In fact, when Africans first saw the Chinese characters printed on their clothes, they were probably in the same mood as when we first climbed the Egyptian pyramids. In this land of Africa, second-hand clothes printed with Chinese characters of China have quietly become a fashion item for local people.

It has long been an open secret that China's second-hand clothes shine brilliantly on the African continent. In Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and other places, the second-hand clothing market is full of goods from China. Although it is second-hand, you can buy "new" clothes with fashionable and diverse styles for very little money. Why not?

In China, a catty of second-hand clothes with 60 cents goes through simple processes such as cleaning, ironing and cutting, and then enters the open-air market in Africa through roads and waterways, ranging from 60 cents a catty to a dozen or even dozens of RMB. China's second-hand clothes are so popular in Africa. Besides being cheap and of good quality, basically as long as it is semi-new or brand-new, let's take our school uniforms as an example. Many students don't like to wear them because they are "rustic", so they put them in the closet all the year round, and they are basically the same as new ones when donating. In addition, people are too embarrassed to donate clothes that are too shabby.

There are four main ways to deal with old clothes. One is to donate clothes we don't want to poor mountainous areas through charity. Second, simply give away, sell or throw away; Third, it can't be resold directly, and other items, such as gloves, sound insulation cotton and thermal insulation cotton, are processed and made by vendors. There is also resale, which is the most profitable. Of course, with the improvement of our living standards, I believe many people are reluctant to buy second-hand clothes, so only a small amount of second-hand clothes will flow into the local market, and most of them will be transshipped to African countries. In Guangzhou, second-hand clothes have a very mature industrial chain from acquisition, sorting, disinfection, packaging and delivery, with low cost and high profit, so many people covet this cake.

So, have you ever donated old clothes?