The six KNUST air quality ambassadors championing clean air action across Ghana and West Africa

It hangs in the air before most Ghanaians are fully awake. The smoke from burning rubbish at the end of a street. The exhaust from tro-tros and trucks sitting in traffic that barely moves. Dust lifted from unpaved roads, fumes drifting from fish smokers and roadside food vendors, emissions from factories and construction sites, all of it mixing, settling, and entering the lungs of millions of people who have no idea it is happening.

By Caleb Ahinakwah