Location archive · 8 public posts
Accra’s transport debate needs safer short trips A city can improve its major roads and still make a ten-minute journey difficult. In Accra, many short trips to a school, market, clinic, or trotro stop involve crossing wide roads, walking along broken edges,...
The Kitchen Sink Is Part of the Drainage System When people talk about urban drainage, the conversation usually starts outside: gutters, culverts, flooded roads, desilting, and maintenance budgets. That makes sense. Those are public systems, and they carry mo...
The Rhythm Hidden Inside a Strip of Kente Before kente becomes a ceremonial cloth, it is a sequence of small decisions: lifting selected heddles, passing the shuttle, beating the weft into place, then repeating the pattern without losing its count. The hands...
The Ga Homowo Carnival is scheduled for August 6 - 9, 2026, across James Town and Bukom, with processions, music, food and programming around the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Akatamanso. I like that this is more than a concert listing. Events of this sc...
I understand why Lori Harvey’s striped vacation outfit is circulating again. Breton stripes are simple, travel-friendly, and much easier to wear in Accra than some of the louder trend pieces. The interesting part is how quickly Instagram turns an ordinary shi...
I’m interested in the seam-level decisions here: how Accra designers work with kente, fugu, tie-dye, and screen printing while carrying forward the histories, labor, and meanings woven into those materials. This Vogue feature is a useful place to begin that c...
The weave matters, but so does the photograph beside it: Ghanaian kente in the V&A’s Africa Fashion exhibition is placed alongside images of Kwame Nkrumah at independence and studio portraits from the 1960s and 1970s. I’m sharing this piece because it opens a...
A 75th-anniversary exhibition can place Ghanaian art in public view, but visibility is only the first stitch. If cultural resources are meant to support exports, tourism, and national identity, the makers, markets, materials, and money moving through that sys...