Palm wine tapper Tamba Conteh holds onto his traditional harness, or 'banga' rope, which he uses to shimmy up the trunks of palm trees to collect palm wine.

Tamba Conteh, a veteran palm wine tapper, climbs a palm tree outside Freetown. Conteh hails from the Limba ethnic group, who have dominated the palm wine industry for hundreds of years. The sap from t...

Tamba Conteh, a veteran palm wine tapper, climbs a palm tree outside Freetown. Conteh hails from the Limba ethnic group, who have dominated the palm wine industry for hundreds of years. The sap from t...

Palm wine tapper Tamba Conteh pours himself a cup of palm wine during a day's work outside Freetown. The drink, known locally as 'poyo', ferments naturally, becoming stronger in taste and alcohol cont...

A Chodovar beer advertisement near the Ve Skale (In the Rock) restaurant. Its 800 year-old Gothic cellars are usually full of visitors but due to the coronavirus restrictions, the restaurant has b...

Plastic cups used for drinking palm wine in a 'poyo' bar in central Freetown.

Beehives in a clearing in the Tobe protected forest. Some 350 hectares in area, the forest had been severely degraded by agriculture. Over the last 35 years it has been restored thanks to a partnershi...

A female customer sits, unveiled, waiting to have her face made up in a beauty salon.

Women selling charcoal beside a highway. Over 90 percent of the nation's households are dependent on wood or charcoal for cooking. Together with a demand for agricultural land driven by one of the wor...

Ali 'Baba' Biao in his office at his carpentry business. Biao says he purchases wood only from permitted sources. Nonetheless government-approved timber forests are often planted at the expense of nat...

A board being trimmed at a workshop belonging to Ali 'Baba' Biao. Biao says he purchases wood only from permitted sources. Nonetheless government-approved timber forests are often planted at the expen...

Boards being trimmed at a workshop belonging to Ali 'Baba' Biao. Biao says he purchases wood only from permitted sources. Nonetheless government-approved timber forests are often planted at the expens...

Two men drinking tea in a cafe.

A typing class given by Mr Innocent Lewis at the ITC Computer Training School Special Mass Computer Literacy Programme.

A typing class given by Mr Innocent Lewis at the ITC Computer Training School Special Mass Computer Literacy Programme.

A shopkeeper sits outside a shop where a US Marine is standing guard. The bazaar had been damaged due to fighting between US forces and the Taliban.

Aissatou Ndoye harvests hibiscus flowers on her farm near Thies. The flowers will be dried and used to make bissap, one of the country's most popular drinks.

Aissatou Ndoye harvests hibiscus flowers on her farm near Thies. The flowers will be dried and used to make bissap, one of the country's most popular drinks.

Aissatou Ndoye harvests hibiscus flowers on her farm near Thies. The flowers will be dried and used to make bissap, one of the country's most popular drinks.

Men scoop dried hibiscus flowers into a sack on a roof top in the village of Keur Matar Gueye. The flowers will be used to make bissap tea, a popular local infusion.

Men scoop dried hibiscus flowers into a sack on a roof top in the village of Keur Matar Gueye. The flowers will be used to make bissap tea, a popular local infusion.

Men scoop dried hibiscus flowers into a sack on a roof top in the village of Keur Matar Gueye. The flowers will be used to make bissap tea, a popular local infusion.

Aissatou Ndoye harvests hibiscus flowers on her farm near Thies. The flowers will be dried and used to make bissap, one of the country's most popular drinks.

The fleshy calyx of a hibiscus plant which will be dried and used to make bissap.

Aissatou Ndoye harvests hibiscus flowers on her farm near Thies. The flowers will be dried and used to make bissap, one of the country's most popular drinks.

A man holds a handful of dried hibiscus flowers which are used to make one of the country's national drinks, bissap.

Dried hibiscus flowers used to make one of the country's national drinks, bissap.

A US marine on patrol passes a butcher's shop displaying chickens.

A charcoal seller sitting in front of his shop.

People on a ride at a fun fair set up on waste ground on the edge of Hartlepool's marina district that was formerly a busy industrial port. Hartlepool has always voted Labour, including in the last G...

People at a fun fair set up on waste ground on the edge of Hartlepool's marina district that was formerly a busy industrial port. Hartlepool has always voted Labour, including in the last General Ele...

A family at a fun fair set up on waste ground on the edge of Hartlepool's marina district that was formerly a busy industrial port. Hartlepool has always voted Labour, including in the last General E...

Closed shops with the former industrial port area in the background. Hartlepool has always voted Labour, including in the last General Election, when many neighbouring areas in Labour's so-called 'Re...

Socially distanced customers drinking outside the Pot House, a waterfront pub. Hartlepool has always voted Labour, including in the last General Election, when many neighbouring areas in Labour's so-...

A sign explaining COVID-19 restrictions in place at a fun fair (before opening) on waste ground. In the background, the three masts of a sailing vessel at the National Museum of the Royal Navy appear...

An external view of the National Museum of the Royal Navy. Hartlepool has always voted Labour, including in the last General Election, when many neighbouring areas in Labour's so-called 'Red Wall' s...

A farmer removes opium poppy heads that no longer contain sap in a field close to the city of Kandahar.

A farmer scores opium poppy heads in a field close to the city of Kandahar.

A farmer scores opium poppy heads in a field close to the city of Kandahar.

A widow wearing a burkha begging on a street beside a cobbler and sandal vendor.

Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market).

Corrugated metal roofs at Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market). The market is thought to be amongst the largest in Africa, with over 10,000 individual stores.

Shoppers walk past a clothes store in Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market).

Various types of preserved animals and birds, including vultures, for sale at a vodun traditional medecine stall in Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market).

Men gather in a 'chai khana', tea house-restaurant.

Shopers and traders walk past advertising billboards in Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market).

Traditional medicine vendor, Ibrahim Adam, in his stall in the sprawling Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market). Where among the items he sells are the skins of various wild animals including small ca...

A traditional medicine vendor displays a dried chameleon from a stall in Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market). The traditional medicine industry is among the drivers of the illegal wildlife trade.

Metalworkers create chests in a workshop in Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market).

Shoppers walk past a stall selling second hand gloasses in Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market).

A traditional medicine vendor displays a jar of African grey parrot feathers in Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market). African grey parrots are frequently poached from the wild both for use in tradit...

Dried chameleons and other reptiles and amphibians being sold at a traditional medicine store in Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market). The traditional medicine industry is among the drivers of the i...

Shoppers and traders in Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market). The market is among the largest in Africa, with more than 10,000 stalls selling virtually everything imaginable.

Shoppers and traders in Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market). The market is among the largest in Africa, with more than 10,000 stalls selling virtually everything imaginable.

Second hand glasses for sale in Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market).

Florzy Anderson sells shoes in a wedge-shaped stall at a busy junction in the middle of Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market), one of the largest on the continent. The shoes are mostly imported from...

Various types of preserved animals and birds, including vultures, for sale at a vodun traditional medecine stall in Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market).

Various types of preserved animals and birds, including vultures, for sale at a vodun traditional medecine stall in Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market).

A dried monkey's paw and other wild animals products for sale in a traditional medicine voodoo, or vodun, stall in Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market). The traditional medicine industry is among th...

A metal workshop on the edge of Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market).

Various types of preserved animals and birds, including vultures, for sale at a vodun traditional medecine stall in Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market).

Yams are unloaded from trucks at Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market).

Dried fish for sale at Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market).

A trader walks through Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market) carrying a metal basin on her head.

Fabric seller Rita Owusu (35) in her stall in Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market) where she sells both locally manufactured and imported printed wax fabrics (Dutch wax prints) which remain extremel...

Butchers sell beef at Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market).

A gold trader weighs and measures pieces of gold at his stall in Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market).

A gold trader weighs and measures pieces of gold at his stall in Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market).

Fabric seller Rita Owusu (35) in her stall in Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market) where she sells both locally manufactured and imported printed wax fabrics (Dutch wax prints) which remain extremel...

A tinsmith carrying on his father's trade, working in a shipping container set up as a store in front of the ruins of Darul Aman Palace.

Corrugated metal roofs at Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market). The market is thought to be amongst the largest in Africa, with over 10,000 individual stores.

Fabric seller Rita Owusu (35) in her stall in Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market) where she sells both locally manufactured and imported printed wax fabrics (Dutch wax prints) which remain extremel...

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.

Corrugated metal roofs at Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market). The market is thought to be amongst the largest in Africa, with over 10,000 individual stores.

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...

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.

Chinese plastic toys for sale in Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market).

Mobile phones for sale in Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market). The market is thought to be amongst the largest in Africa, with over 10,000 individual stores.

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.

A youth preparing kebabs in a 'tchairana', tea house.

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

Corrugated metal roofs at Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market). The market is thought to be amongst the largest in Africa, with over 10,000 individual stores.

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

Second hand clothes salesman Oppong Antwi (50) in his stall in Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market). Antwi says the business can be a gamble. Each 55kg bale of reject clothes contains around 400 shi...

Corrugated metal roofs at Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market). The market is thought to be amongst the largest in Africa, with over 10,000 individual stores.

Second hand clothes salesman Oppong Antwi (50) in his stall in Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market). Antwi says the business can be a gamble. Each 55kg bale of reject clothes contains around 400 shi...

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.

Men gathered around a caged bird in a 'chai-khana' tea room.

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

Florzy Anderson sells shoes in a wedge-shaped stall at a busy junction in the middle of Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market), one of the largest on the continent. The shoes are mostly imported from...