The image depicts an active outdoor market scene in Ebute-Metta, Nigeria, under an overcast sky

The image depicts an active outdoor market scene in Ebute-Metta, Nigeria, under an overcast sky. A middle-aged Black woman with dark, braided hair is seated centrally, facing slightly right and looking directly forward with a neutral expression. She wears a dark blue blouse patterned with orange, yellow, and white flowers, and a blue and orange patterned wrapper. A light-colored tassel necklace hangs from her neck. Her hands are positioned over a large, black, round basin filled with light brown, flattened oval-shaped seeds, identified as melon seeds (egusi). She holds a silver cylindrical tin, also full of these seeds, seemingly in the process of measuring or handling them. To her immediate left, a yellow plastic bucket rests within the basin of seeds. Behind the primary subject, to her left, another Black woman wearing a dark headwrap is partially visible, seated amidst market goods. The background reveals a busy market environment characterized by multiple red market umbrellas providing shade. Various sacks, bags, and other unidentifiable goods are piled around the stalls. A yellow public transport "danfo" bus is visible in the mid-ground, and other obscured market-goers are present further in the distance.