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Turning trash into art at Ghana's toxic dump

Published Wed, Dec 27, 2017 · 09:50 PM

Accra

JOSEPH Awuah-Darko sits on a stool at one of the world's largest electronic waste dumps, watching polystyrene and insulation cables burn on the blackened ground.

"It's survival and dystopia," said the British-born Ghanaian, surveying the stretch of wasteland around him as dense plumes of acrid smoke rise into the air.

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