#theguardian.com. × #Mar.03.2025 ‘People cry, get angry’: remembering the enslaved in Ghana’s remarkable sculpture park. Kwame Akoto-Bamfo started by shaping one clay head in 2009. Now thousands are displayed at the Nykyinkyim Museum, each representing an African who was lost to slavery
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#theguardian.com. × #Feb.25.2025 Ghana pays for the west’s wastefulness | Letters. Letter: The Kantamanto market fire highlighted to Miah Redmond that the country’s future should not be built on the waste of others, but on its own industries
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#theguardian.com. × #Feb.24.2025 ‘Dead white person’s clothes’ mount up as Ghana’s Kantamanto market struggles to rebuild after fire. Six weeks after a devastating blaze in Accra ripped through one of the world’s biggest secondhand markets, many stalls remain unfinished and thousands still have no income
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#theguardian.com. × #Feb.11.2025 From escaped child bride to artist: why one Ghanaian painter puts women at the centre of her work. Hawa Awanle Ayiboro’s solo exhibition opens this month in Accra with paintings that explore a difficult period in her childhood and the emancipation of other women
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#theguardian.com. × #Feb.01.2025 ‘The image is a call to honour our roots’: Reginald Kofi Boateng’s best phone photo. Exploring themes of identity, heritage and individuality, the Ghanaian photographer used surreal colours to add a dreamlike quality
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#theguardian.com. × #Jan.03.2025 Massive cleanup under way in Ghana after fire destroys one of world’s biggest secondhand markets. Thousands of traders face ruin after blaze razes two-thirds of Accra’s Kantamanto, which receives an estimated 15m used clothes from global north each week
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