Rural-urban inequalities drive thousands of young people to flee Ghana’s agricultural heartlands to cities in search of economic opportunities every year. Many of them end up in urban slums and in hazardous work, where the harsh environment changes them from fine-looking laboring young men to sun-burnt, wrinkled old men. The harsh environment changes them from […]
Rural-urban inequalities drive thousands of young people to flee Ghana’s agricultural heartlands to cities in search of economic opportunities every year. Many of them end up in urban slums and in hazardous work, where the harsh environment changes them from fine-looking laboring young men to sun-burnt, wrinkled old men. The harsh environment changes them from […]
Rural-urban inequalities drive thousands of young people to flee Ghana’s agricultural heartlands to cities in search of economic opportunities every year. Many of them end up in urban slums and in hazardous work, where the harsh environment changes them from fine-looking laboring young men to sun-burnt, wrinkled old men.
The harsh environment changes them from fine-looking laboring young men to sun-burnt, wrinkled old men.
You can see the hard life they have lived on their faces if you care to look.
For me, the struggle and unspeakable suffering of these modest laboring men share powerful lessons on human dignity.
There, a quick peek into the life of a sweating hardworking man, in the early morning sun!
You tell me that you are becoming (like myself) very poor, but you also inform me that you are very happy.The Life and Letters of Hugh Miller, Peter Bayne “You tell me that you are becoming (like myself) very poor, but you also inform me that you are very happy.” — The Life and Letters […]
Hundreds of children are growing up in toxic spaces amid scarcity and deprivation. This casts a serious shadow over their future. Hundreds of children such as Kwaku Debrah below are growing up in toxic spaces amid scarcity and deprivation. This casts a serious shadow over their future. Child Labourer With Artificial Eye Kwaku Debrah is […]
Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train. oscar wilde The Thinking African Man “Long years have since passed and life in Accra is still tough,” the elderly urban African man below told me as he looks back on his life […]
Hi, Muntaka Chasant here. I'm, among many other things, an entrepreneur and a documentary photographer. I'm here on the front lines of urban struggle — only with my wits and cameras — capturing key moments, collecting untold stories, and helping to forge new paths.
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