Author Description

At Christmas and on rainy days, the women traders of Accra make use of taxis and other high cost forms of transport. On normal days, many transport their goods and themselves in overcrowded, poorly ventilated mini-buses (tro-tros). This book examines the relationships between household organization, petty trading and the informal public transport system. It documents the travel and transport strategies of Accra's female traders as they go about the task of household survival in a petty trading economy.