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His two-year-old downtown shop is his core business. At Fashion Afrique, Roosevelt Pratt sells fair trade clothing and other handmade products from Africa. The business not only supports this Liberian native, but it also supports artisans back home and helps to keep alive the African culture. In addition to managing his retail store, Pratt teaches French lessons to adults and children, teaches drumming workshops in public schools, conducts classes in African dance and offers Swahili lessons. The store is headquarters for all this now, but he dreams of someday having a separate building for his “Center for Cultural Integration.” His work in Springfield is an attempt to rebuild his career, after two civil wars forced him to leave Liberia, where he had founded and run a school for 15 years. He calls multitasking his “way to relax.” But there’s another reason he works so hard: “I don’t have enough money.”