The vast second-hand clothing market at Accra Central, and one of the largest of its kind anywhere.
Bales of used clothing arrive from Europe, North America and Asia, are bought unseen by retailers, and are sorted, repaired, restyled and resold across the city. Tens of thousands of people work there - sorters, tailors, dyers, porters, traders.
Ghanaians call second-hand clothing obroni wawu - “the dead white man’s clothes” - from the assumption that nobody would give away clothing this good while still alive.
The trade is genuinely double-edged. It clothes Accra cheaply and well and supports an enormous number of livelihoods. A significant share of what arrives is also unsellable, and ends up in landfill, in the lagoons, or on the beach. Both things are true at once.