Kwame Edwin Otu is Assistant Professor of African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia, USA. Their book, Amphibious Subjects: The Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana, is forthcoming with the University of California Press. An ethnographic project on a community of selfidentified effeminate men, known in local parlance as sasso, the book draws on African philosophy, African/Black feminisms, and African and African diasporic literature to make sense of how sasso navigate homophobia and the increased visibility of LGBT human rights politics in neoliberal Ghana. Their ongoing project puts a community of e-waste workers in Ghana at the center of critical anthropological and ecological inquiry, underscoring the significance of waste as an archive that amplifies Africa’s paradoxical location as a site of extraction and deposition.