Captured by Ghanaian photographer and health enthusiast-Kobby Blay, 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.
In the pictures, Mr. Sosu is seen donning a suit, white shirt, a beaded tie of the Ghana flag colors topped with a wide-brimmed leather hat.
Sosu Patrick attends to another customer (photo by (Kobby Blay)
Sosu Patrick Attending to a customer (photo by (Kobby Blay)
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.”
Mr. Patrick negotiates with a customer (photo by (Kobby Blay)
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”
Sosu Patrick- The corporate Corn seller (photo by (Kobby Blay)