Olumide Abimbola and the Okrika Culture The Socio-Economic Network of Second Clothes Sales in West Africa New COWACArt member Olumide Abimbolas sociological research is on what is known in Nigeria as okrika, second hand clothes, exploring the West African international network in this trade through the lens of the ubiquity of the Nigerian Igbo ethnic group in the trade, as indicated by his PhD Dissertation title, Okrika: Igbo Trade Networks and Secondhand Clothing . He is also interested in the question of informal transborder trade networks, as with okrika, as regional integration forces in West Africa, an almost desperate economic and cultural need in Africa, vital, to the best of my knowledge, to boosting its economic and cultural power. His blog Loomnie ( loomnie/about/)presents his thoughts on variois issues, with responses by informed commentators. His personal page at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (eth.mpg.de/cms/en/people/d/abimbola/) presents his research. The images below depict the intersection of the color of textile and human vitality within the Western second hand clothing trade through the dynamism evoked by the images of this trade in action and Matej Andraž Vogrinčičs installation art inspired by the trade. Top : Second hand market for clothes from the West in Kenya Left : Matej Andraž Vogrinčičs art installation Casa vestita (Clothes house), 1999, second-hand clothes, paint 1200 x 1800 x 800 cm Right : Second hand clothes from the West selling in Nigeria
Posted on: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 15:32:29 +0000
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