The Konkomba Yam Market in Accra, Ghana, is one of West Africa's largest agricultural markets. This article undertakes a multi-dimensional analysis focusing on contests between unsuccessful government efforts to relocate the market, and local efforts to remain in place, culminating in indeterminacy. Publicly, the relocation debate pivots around competing rationales: those of government driven ‘market’ and ‘formal’ logics versus locally-based ‘rights’ and ‘informal’ urban governance. Conceptually, the article highlights how the imbroglio around the failed relocation is driven and perpetuated by both antagonistic and productive relationships between different formal and informal actors and institutions. Empirically, the case draws attention to how urban policy omissions of contextual socio-political and economic interests and power relations result in the informalisation of urban governance.

位于加纳阿克拉的孔康巴山药市场是西非最大的农产品市场之一。本文进行了多维分析，重点关注政府重新安置市场的努力与地方努力保持原位的失败之间的竞争，最终导致不确定性。在公开场合，搬迁辩论围绕着相互竞争的理由展开：政府驱动的“市场”和“正式”逻辑与以地方为基础的“权利”和“非正式”城市治理的理由。从概念上讲，这篇文章强调了围绕失败搬迁的混乱是如何由不同正式和非正式参与者和机构之间的对抗性和生产性关系驱动和延续的。根据经验，