A man repairs his makeshift protection wall to safeguard his house before the next high tide arrives in Bargny. Photo: AFP
Medza remembers the coastline of his native Senegalese town of Bargny as a place where he fished and played as a child before it became a festering rubbish dump.
The beach bordering the fishing settlement, about 30km south of the capital Dakar, is now permanently choked with plastic waste and rotten fish carcasses.
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