Desire Koffi, 24-year-old artist, works at his workshop in Abidjan, Ivory Coast December 3, 2018. Picture taken December 3, 2018. REUTERS/Luc Gnago
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Desire Koffi often walks through Koumassi, a popular district of Ivory Coast's main city Abidjan, to collect old mobile phones that he buys from people for 500 CFA francs (£0.68) a pair.
Back home, the 24-year-old Ivorian artist dismantles the phones with a hammer to pull out the screens and keyboards. He uses them for his paintings. One can take him up to three or five days of work.
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