Originally Posted by
SealLion
It's about these people in Ghana, the Kayayo, as these women and girls are called travel to the larger centers of Ghana to find work of which, according to the slide show presentation, offers meagre living. When they travel to the larger centers in Ghana, they mostly work as porters.
here some more info with sort of a documentary on them:
The Untold Stories of Ghana's Kayayo (Market Girls)
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http://www.circumspecte.com/search/label/market
On Myths and Poverty
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http://untoldstories.pulitzercenter.org/2009/02/on-myths-and-poverty.html?cid=6a00d834520a2e69e20128779098bc970c
basically, they are 'forced' (out of poverty, induced by government/local people negligence) to leave their villages trying to find some work in the town markets and what they can get is, roughly speaking, either hard physical work (as most male workers do) as 'carriers' or prostitutes
what is interesting is the lack of info on their employers (market patrons?) and those who actually exploit their cheap labor (and other activities) on these markets
judging by the wiki info, ghana is a post colonial (british) country, still connected to the commonwealth organization (read: still exploited by their former? colonizers, most likely with little locally owned resources/industry), similar to many african countries
Ghana, known for its gold in colonial times, r
emains one of the world's top gold producers. Other exports such as cocoa, timber, electricity, diamond, bauxite[27], and manganese are major sources of foreign exchange monitored, operated and managed by the Presidential Ministry Agricultural Arm of the Republic of Ghana headed by Mrs. Antoinette Efua-Addo
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana
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