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most of those textile are disposed, not donated. they are also not free. people buy it. there's a small ecosystem, the countries I've seen the locals but bulk textiles in a "Chinatown". most African countries lost their cotton export markets after end of slavery, ironically, because they never managed the investment for machines so the cotton fields just withered or were covered to something like corn with manual labor.

wonder why you think they are on Europe level situation. even further Yugoslavia post war was much better off



i don't mean africa is as rich as europe; i mean africa is larger and more diverse than europe, so analogizing africa to north korea is misleading


ah i see. but it's diverse in the sense that arbitrary lines were drawn by the invaders if we're taking about state economies. so more like Balkans for your meaning than Europe.


no, it's immensely more ethnically and culturally diverse than europe, regardless of where you draw the borders between states




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