Ghana's Kayayo: On Myths and Poverty
The Kayayo women of Ghana migrate from the country's poorer Muslim north to the major cities of the Christian south to find work.
The Kayayo women of Ghana migrate from the country's poorer Muslim north to the major cities of the Christian south to find work.
Alietu works as a Kayayo, waiting with other girls at a market entrance for buses to arrive, and then chasing after with the hope that the passengers will need their goods carried home or to a market.
Mohammed Salifu, a street-savvy youth counselor, helps women and girls who leave home to look for work in Ghana's capital, Accra.
The lives of Kayayo women living in the "Sodomandgomorrah" city in Ghana.
Peter DiCampo visits the village where many Kayayo women move to the city of Accra from.
Alietu, a teenage village girl from Ghana, has migrated to the south central city of Kumasi and is living in a former ink and chalk factory.
Agbogblushie is a shantytown in Ghana ridden with poverty and myth surrounding its people.
Liberian refugees in Ghana protested, hoping the U.N. would resettle them in Western countries. Now they're in a makeshift camp, fearing mass deportation to a homeland with 85 percent jobless rate.