Victoria Okoye
Victoria Okoye is an urban policies specialist with Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) and a PhD student at the University of Sheffield in the UK. A founder of African Urbanism, which explores West African cities’ development trajectories, she works on planning, researching and engaging informal, street-level spatial appropriation in West African cities.
Ghana feels the pinch of ‘modernisation’

Ghana feels the pinch of ‘modernisation’

by Victoria Okoye | Oct 1, 2017

In Kumasi, small traders face forced relocation as the government seeks to neaten up the country’s cities It was late morning in May 2016, and Seth Ohene had made only GH¢10 ($2.28) in sales. “If I stay for the whole day, maybe I can make GH¢40 ($9.12),”  he  said. ...

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Victoria Okoye
Victoria Okoye is an urban policies specialist with Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) and a PhD student at the University of Sheffield in the UK. A founder of African Urbanism, which explores West African cities’ development trajectories, she works on planning, researching and engaging informal, street-level spatial appropriation in West African cities.
Ghana feels the pinch of ‘modernisation’

Ghana feels the pinch of ‘modernisation’

by Victoria Okoye | Oct 1, 2017 |

In Kumasi, small traders face forced relocation as the government seeks to neaten up the country’s cities It was late morning in May 2016, and Seth Ohene had made only GH¢10 ($2.28) in sales. “If I stay for the whole day, maybe I can make GH¢40 ($9.12),”  he  said. ...