SHEA BUTTER FROM GHANA Shea butter is a well-known and an important local product in Northern Ghana and also few other African countries. Ghana and Burkina Faso are most likely the leading in Shea butter production. The shea butter comes from the nuts of the shea trees that grow in the Savannah region from…
THE BOLGA BASKETS, A BEAUTIFUL AFRICAN CRAFT WORK It is impossible to drive through Accra without passing by one of those craftsmen selling large clusters of colourful woven baskets, predominantly under trees, where they have shade to weave. Those baskets are known as “Bolga baskets” and have become over years a key part of…
GHANA’S KENTE CLOTH This is a brightly colorful fabric which comes from the word “kenten”, which means basket in the Asante dialect. Akans also refer to kente as “nwentoma”, meaning woven cloth. The kente is a unique cloth which is easily recognizable worldwide. The ewe is another ethnic group who also weave kente in Ghana.…
GHANA’S INCREDIBLE BEAD CULTURE The origins of beads in Ghana Beads might be the oldest art form we know. It is reported that Neanderthal men wore beads made from teeth and bones as pendants. In fact, beads have been used by almost every civilization across the world at a given point in time as…