GHANA -- Florence Asare is the owner and managing director of TK Beads. Africa Report documents how his remarkable entrepreneur started a small scale business in Ghana by recycling used glass bottles. She now earns an income by transforming junk into jewels.

Garbe Mohammed is a fourth generation bead merchant, and has sold and traded beads across West Africa his whole working life. He has a stall at the Koforidua beads market, in eastern Ghana, but travels throughout west Africa, including Togo, Benin, Nigeria and Mali in search of rare beads to add to his stock, as well as his precious personal collection.

"I see multiple colonial governors," says Ghanaian software entrepreneur Herman Chinery-Hesse of the international development establishment in Africa. "We are held captive by the donor community." The West has positioned itself as the protagonist of development, giving rise to a vast multi-billion dollar poverty industry - the business of doing good has never been better.