Wassa Akropong and Nana Rasta
It was our first day in Wassa Akropong, a city populated by immigrants and illegal miners. We drove through a police check point. Literally 30 meters away on the side of the road was a group of illegal miners digging into the ground and some excavators operating.
The destruction to the land was visceral. Mountains of red dirt…
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