VOA Our Voices 446: The Resilience of African Street Food Vending

As the world continues to experience a post Covid global recession and food prices constantly rising, what are small scale vendors such as street food vendors do to stay afloat? In Africa, women are known to be the drivers of the informal economy and street food vending is one of the trades in which they excel. Our Voices speak to women vendors and look at the challenges they face and how they try to overcome them.