A year ago, this was a forest village.
Yes, all over here, there used to be cocoa fields and palm trees.
An hour down the road, in the gold rush town of Isoko, the environmental and social costs of Ivory Coast’s mining boom are becoming apparent.
The locals call it Abidjan2 (the country’s capital is called Abidjan).
Now it’s a boom town, several thousand strong.
Here petrol fumes mingle with rumours of a treasure there for the taking.
They were all destroyed to make space for gold.
Its dense population and frenetic energy remind them of the country’s biggest city.