You’d probably never see a street vendor better
dressed than Mr. Sosu Patrick, who sells roasted
corn on the streets of Accra.
Captured by Ghanaian photographer and health
enthusiast in these pictures, Sosu Patrick, popularly
known as SP is a 40-year-old vendor of a highly
favored Ghanaian street “chops,” roasted plantain
and coconut.
enthusiast in these pictures, Sosu Patrick, popularly
known as SP is a 40-year-old vendor of a highly
favored Ghanaian street “chops,” roasted plantain
and coconut.
Intriguingly enough, this particular type of vendors
seems reserved for women. But even as it is
astonishing to most people in the patriarchal
Ghanaian system that SP would dabble in this trade,
what draw more people to him would certainly have
to be his “unusually” sharp dressing and heightened
sense of hygiene, style, and branding.
In the pictures, which have since gone viral, Mr.
Sosu is seen donning a suit, white shirt, a beaded
tie of the Ghana flag colors topped with a wide-
brimmed leather hat.
According to the Kobby Blay, who took the photos,
Sosu narrated to him how his business had started
some five years ago after he had “a dream that this
was going to be his breakthrough”.
“I have some other children too, and they are in
school where I hail from,” Sosu told Kobby Blay. “I
have a quite a large farm and will soon complete
my house.”
On health, the stylish corn seller believes he is
probably Accra’s “best seller of good healthy
roasted corn” as he doesn’t allow his customers to
touch the corn until after they have purchased it
from him. He enthused to Blay, “I don’t want my
customers to blame me for cholera”
Image credit: Kobby Blay
