Rwanda: Black Friday Deals and the Traces of Inequality

4 December 2014
opinion

In the US, Black Friday is the name given to the shopping day after Thanksgiving Day, and more recently, the day has come to symbolise the biggest day of the shopping calendar.

It was originally called Black Friday because so many people went out to shop that it caused traffic accidents and sometimes even violence. In anticipation of that chaos, in the early 1960s the Philadelphia Police Department coined the term Black Friday in readiness for the Friday following Thanksgiving Day.

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