Europe calls it recycling; Africa calls it residue.
Beneath the language of “sustainability,” the fashion industry hides an old pattern of extraction where the global South bears the weight of the North’s conscience. This is what the circular economy looks like when the loop is colonial.

Nine thousand looks, one number on repeat: 97.1%. Fashion counts bodies and calls it progress, but what do these decimals really measure?

Some revolutions had soundtracks. Others were silenced before the first note began. In Congo’s struggle for independence, jazz became both a language of freedom and a tool of empire. This is the story of music, memory, and a woman history tried to mute but couldn’t.