“Yesu Adom (God’s grace)” chop bar: liminality and provisionality within Accra Airport City

African governments continually envision cities as “world-class cities” to attract businesses to invest and promote economic growth and development. Unfortunately, these neoliberal planning ideals result in inequalities seen through marginalisation, exclusion and peripheralisation. Despite these inequalities, poor urban residents show resilience by navigating the restrictive systems to meet their daily needs. Accra Airport City is a neoliberal capitalist enclave that restricts any form of informality. However, informal food vending persists in the liminal spaces in the enclave. How do marginalised groups navigate such restrictive spaces, and what is the result of their navigations around the strict boundaries? The objectives of the paper are to examine the factors leading to the formation of liminal spaces in Airport City, the nature of the liminal spaces and the planning implications. In-depth interviews with some low-wage workers and food vendors revealed that low incomes and the desire to access affordable food promote informal food vending in liminal spaces in the enclave. The paper concludes that appreciating the processes of everyday practices and understanding the existing social structures through a structurationist lens can support a better appreciation of informality in the enclave.