Photo: G. Pascal Zachary
A small farm grows cabbages just a few kilometers from the central market in Takoradi, an oil-boom town and port city in Ghana. As the city’s population has burgeoned, more people living on the peripheries have begun cultivating land that would otherwise be idle. Zachary says that specialty vegetables command high prices: “This guy probably thought, ‘I used to just live here, but if I grow cabbages and treat them nicely, they sell for $1 a head.’ ”















G. Pascal Zachary
is the author of Bush’s biography, Endless Frontier (1997), and the editor of The Essential Writings of Vannevar Bush (Columbia University Press, 2022). He has taught at Stanford University, UC-Berkeley and Arizona State University.
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