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Detained Nigerian Blogger October 24, 2008
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My name is Olumide Abimbola. I ~~am currently finishing up~~ just handed in a PhD dissertation in Anthropology at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany. The dissertation is an ethnographic study of the international trade in second-hand clothing. I follow the trade from the United Kingdom, a source country of choice, to West Africa, finding out the relations that enable and sustain the trade. More

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