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Marrakesh → Lagos · 2026
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Chapter 14 · Ghana

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TRADE→STRUCTURE

Kumasi

(Ashanti capital, Kejetia market)

16 NovGhana · after the Paga crossingpivot

The Ashanti market city. What order organises this scale?

For whom? · By whom? · Under what care?

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Reading conditions…

Capture · By whom?

Record one counter-map of a market section as a working system.

Sound note · 15 s

Record one counter-map of a market section as a working system.

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The ◉ photo button records a fragment. Voice and note record the field decision around it.

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Provocation

What order is inside what looks, to a passing eye, like chaos?

Field log

Map one small section of the market as a system: who sells what, where, and why there.

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These are route scaffolds, not confirmed stops. Each point holds a Wikimedia image slot, a Freesound query and a blog prompt so the road can replace the estimate with lived material.

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Status
Estimated stop
Country
Ghana
Leg
560 km, incl. Paga
Practice
Market reading

Market city

ORIENTATIONstars, first notes, first route traceBegin with a protocol the road can correct

Kejetia, Ashanti history and trade

Kumasi is the Ashanti capital and home to Kejetia, one of the largest markets in West Africa. The estimated stop reads scale, trade and a deep kingdom history after the Burkina Faso to Ghana crossing.

What success looks like

A strong fragment finds the structure inside the market's apparent chaos and respects the Ashanti history it sits within.

For whom?

Whose livelihoods make the market, and who is reduced to backdrop?

By whom?

Record one counter-map of a market section as a working system.

“Apparent chaos is usually an order you have not learned yet.”
Counter-Atlas note
“Map a fragment of the market, not the whole myth of it.”
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