In the heart of Accra lies Agbobloshie, a sprawling scrapyard once tagged as one of most toxic places on earth. A former wetland, Agbobloshie has become a dumpsite for electronic waste products from around the globe. The scrapyard is also inhabited by some 10,000-20,000 youth who sift through the scrap metal to salvage mostly copper … Read more
By Yaw DK Osseo-Asare There was a moment when I was thirteen-years-old. We had just departed Ghana, having stayed in a bungalow on the epic campus of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, a lush tree-filled landscape populated by early masterworks of African tropical modernism: an architectural style of concrete near-brutalist … Read more
While old electronics pile up and turn Accra’s neighborhood Agbogbloshie into the most polluted place on earth, international agreements trying to stop the transportation of electronic waste (E-waste) to developing countries fail. Reason to worry? “No”, is the firm response of Rafa Font, founder of Recyhub, and DK Osseo-Asare, co-founder of the Agbogbloshie Makerspace Platform … Read more