A growing number of people in Africa’s biggest economy are now buying used clothes, shoes, wigs, and accessories as inflation cuts down on real wages. Second-hand items popularly known as Thrift or Okrika have gained a lot of traction in the country in recent years on accelerating inflation - t
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Josephine Okojie-Okeiyi is a journalist with over five years’ reporting experience. She writes on industry, agriculture, commodities, climate change, and environmental issues. She is fellow of Thomson Reuters Foundation and Bloomberg Media Initiative for Africa.

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