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A museum in the middle of the street
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Three towering moko jumbies stroll up behind the stage, as if on cue, dressed in suits of glow-in-the-dark yellow and electric blue. The sun is setting on the second and final day of ChaleWote, Accra’s annual street art festival, but energies show no sign of fading as Burkinabe band Siaka Diarra streams the “polyrhythmic madness” […]

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Three Signs of #Ghana’s #ART Times
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Ghana is currently experiencing a surge of contemporary performing and visual arts. Here are some notes on goings on about #Accra-town. I. #Song_of_the_Pharaoh A new play, Song of the Pharaoh by leading playwright Mohammed Ben Abdallah has been in the works for over a year, being rehearsed, work-shopped, and performed at Ghana’s […]

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Futuristic Folklore in #James_Town, #Ghana
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The streets were dense. Thick with heat from bodies and the sun, as crowds of people gathered in James Town, #Accra last week to take part in this year’s Chale Wote street #ART festival. It is often said that you can’t know where you are going until you look at where you came from. That is to say that if you want to create or re-imagine your future consider your past and what could be changed for you to achieve the desired (...)

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