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Gates buys Kente Cloth (length: 1 min 15 sec) At a market in Ghana, Gates negotiates a price for Kente cloth to wear to an Ashanti ceremony in Kumasi. Read Transcript

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WOMAN AT STALL SHOWS GATES CLOTHING.

GATES: I don't like that one, no. See, I like the blue background. I'm very conservative. Oh, I like that.

IVOR: I think it's nice.

WOMAN: This one is nice.

GATES: How much?

WOMAN: 500,000.

GATES: What?! 500,000! No, the African-American price.

WOMAN: That's right.

GATES: 500,000?!

WOMAN: Yes.

GATES: I am a poor professor.

WOMAN: Ah, a professor. Have you seen any professor who is poor? I don't have it before.

GATES: In my country, many poor professors.

WOMAN: No, no, no, we don't have it here.

GATES: The professors here are rich?

WOMAN: Yes.

GATES: I'm gonna move here. I'll teach at Legon… (FX: CHATTER) I'm sorry, I have no … I have no more money.

WOMAN: Please try.

GATES: No. Can you show me how … how do I know it fits? You have to put it on me. Mm, I like being dressed by a woman.

WOMAN: Somebody help me please.

GATES: Mm, mm … I feel like a king already.

IVOR: Do you need, do you need a helper?

WOMAN: Yes please, a helper.

GATES: I don't want you! I want her. (LAUGHS) No deal.

WOMAN: Put up your hands. You look exactly …

GATES: I'm not the Ashantehene, I'm the skipahene. (LAUGHS) It's used now, 250!

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