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Jan 18

80 000 Years of African Beadwork

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When we think of African art, sculptures and masks may come to mind, but beadwork is a longstanding tradition within African arts. In fact, African archaeological sites contain evidence for some of the world’s oldest known beads. Many African people traditionally produced elaborate and beautiful beadwork that served a variety of decorative and »

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Jan 11

African Rock Arts

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Share African rock art is less well known than the Stone Age painted caves of Europe, which are justly famous, partly for their great beauty but also for their great antiquity.. Though mostly less ancient, Africa’s rock arts are spectacularly abundant, with perhaps hundreds of thousands of sites across the continent. (Film buffs may remember the »

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Jan 09

Behind the scenes – Ghana’s Bespoke Coffins

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Share Teshie a suburb of Accra has put Ghana on the map for its unique coffin designs. A lot has been written about Ghana’s designer coffins. What is less known is the history and the personal life stories of those whose ingenuity and creativity created this unique phenomenon. MyWeku visited the family of Kane Kwei, the carpenter »

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