Arts + Culture
Ghana’s hand-painted movie posters: the video-club art that became collectable
In the 1980s and 1990s, mobile video clubs in Ghana advertised screenings with huge hand-painted posters, often on…
Ghanaian art
Arts + Culture
Akan goldweights: the tiny brass sculptures that weighed gold dust and carried proverbs
For centuries, Akan traders weighed gold dust using small brass weights cast in geometric shapes and figures of…
Arts + Culture
El Anatsui: the Ghanaian sculptor who turned bottle caps into shimmering tapestries
El Anatsui, born in Anyako in Ghana's Volta Region in 1944, spent decades teaching at the University of…
Arts + Culture
Fantasy coffins: how Teshie carpenters turned funerals into sculpture
In Teshie, near Accra, carpenters build coffins shaped like fish, cars, aeroplanes and cocoa pods. The Ga tradition…