Curated by FG Contributor Inaara Merani Yvette Yaa Konadu Tetteh, who swam 450km down Ghana’s Volta River, onboard The Woman Who Does Not Fear, a solar-powered research catamaran. Photograph: Ofoe Amegavie (The Guardian). In Ghana, and many other countries in the global south, waste colonialism has deeply impacted the environment. Every week, 15 million garments are imported into Accra’s Kantamanto market in Ghana – these are secondhand clothes from the global north. Although many of the items are repaired, upcycled, and sold, around 40 percent of these clothing items leave the market as waste.