"Social Conditions in Accra, Ghana"

A look at three neighborhoods in Ghana's rambling, chaotic, and energizing commercial capital. Home to two million people, Accra tumbles over gentle hills and away from the sea more than twenty kilometers to the south, more a collection of communities than a city with a central plan.

Makeshift soccer pitches lie under...
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"Social Conditions in Accra, Ghana"

A look at three neighborhoods in Ghana's rambling, chaotic, and energizing commercial capital. Home to two million people, Accra tumbles over gentle hills and away from the sea more than twenty kilometers to the south, more a collection of communities than a city with a central plan.

Makeshift soccer pitches lie under half-built highways, new shopping malls make the best of dusty locations, and winding streets meet long avenues radiating like spokes from colonial-era rotaries in an urban sprawl with few equals. In the self-respect of Kokomlemle, a working-class district of small shops and warm welcomes, the oceanside industry of Jamestown, one of Accra's poorest but proudest areas, and the good cheer of leafy Adabraka, Ghanaians can be seen at their best.

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