When Katia Osei walked onto the TEDx Accra stage, the massive red letters behind her and the rug beneath her feet were made entirely of trash collected from Kantamanto Market.
Osei, the Head of Environmental Justice at The Or Foundation, was speaking to an audience in a city facing frequent flooding and heavily polluted waterways.
Rather than setting up standard event backdrops that go straight to a rubbish dump after a single afternoon, event organisers Jesse Gyau Kusi and Klenam Fiadzoe decided to rethink the physical structure of the venue.
They partnered with The Or Foundation, an Accra-based non-governmental organization working with workers in the Kantamanto ecosystem, to build the entire stage set from discarded textiles.
The primary material used for the red letters framing
Isaac Nana Yaw Annor, popularly known as King Bygone, is a Ghanaian blogger, publicist and digital publisher, and the editor of Accra Posts. He started out with an entertainment blog, wrote more than 389 articles for Opera News, and worked alongside broadcaster Abeiku Santana on media and publicity from 2016 to 2024. He founded The Gospel Post, We Post Weddings, Nsemwokrom, AfroYard and Culture Gossip, and is a certified software engineer (ALX Africa). Avance Media named him among the Top 50 Ghanaian Bloggers in 2022, 2023 and 2024.
