Families relax in a novelty paddle boats on Band-e Amir lake.

Traders and shoppers browse the stalls in Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market). The market is thought to be amongst the largest in Africa, with over 10,000 individual stores.

Families relax in a novelty paddle boat on Band-e Amir lake.

Obed Opoku manufactures and sells decorated sandals made from car tires from his stall and workshop in Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market). After 18 years working here, Opoku can make around 80 pai...

A woman walks through Chandawal a poor Hazara district on Koh-E Asmal hill.

Boys and girls study in a clandestine school where the windows were covered up to hide their activity. The Taliban had closed down the girls' schools in Herat 18 months earlier, but the community set...

Agyekum Abrokwah Joyce (26) sits in her stall in Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market) from where she sells a range of plastic items imported from China.

Agyekum Abrokwah Joyce (26) sits in her stall in Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market) from where she sells a range of plastic items imported from China.

The faithful embrace the flags of mourning of Muharram during Shia celebrations of Ashura in Muharram, the first month of the lunar Islamic calendar.

The faithful embrace the flags of mourning of Muharram during Shia celebrations of Ashura in Muharram, the first month of the lunar Islamic calendar.

A fabric vendor serves a customer in his stall in Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market).

A woman and a child walk through the snow.

A market set up on a road lined with buildings heavily damaged during the Afghan-Soviet war.

Traders and shoppers browse the stalls in Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market). The market is thought to be amongst the largest in Africa, with over 10,000 individual stores.

Hawkers in the bustling Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market).