All of them have street jobs: they wash cars, sell fruit or medicine, sand from a canoe, make cooking pots, crack stones, or hunt snakes, etc. On the African continent, informal economy has become the first source of income for the city-dwellers (two thirds of them survive like this). In the streets, all kinds of trade can take place; sidewalks and carriageway pavements constitute the perfect premises for the flowering of all kind of human resources.—Les Films d'un Jour