Ananse – Good Trickster or Bad Trickster BUY THIS BOOK Ananse is known as a trickster. Indeed, he is cunning as evidenced in many Ananse stories, but to me, he…
The last bit of the 2021 has been great! I look back at the last few months of 2021 with fond memories. My year had been busy working on manuscripts,…
Football in a Akan Folk Story. How did it get there? The Frog and Lizard’s Final Goal, my new children’s picture book, is based on a folk tale. In this…
My new book, The Frog and Lizard’s Final Goal, came out in October this year, published by DAkpabli and Associates. In this book, I retell and illustrate an animal tale…
Art in School The arts and the school system in Ghana have a complex relationship one characterized with distrust, misunderstanding and ridicule. Whilst this unfortunate state of things is not…
I first saw South African rock art when I just turned twenty. My family was then travelling down south through Zimbabwe. We stopped to see the city of Bulawayo and…
I have always loved Ananse, the spider man (also spelled Anansi), the cunning folk character of legendary laziness and greed. These stories originate from the Akan people of Ghana and…
I painted this on a geographic expedition to the jungle of Mentawai, an island off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. I was then working as one of the cameramen on…
This happened on the spur of the moment. I met this young woman at a friends’ home. She had just arrived in Accra from the North of Ghana and was…
This is one of my earliest large scale paintings, done at age nineteen. What drew me to this scene was the pair of gloves a construction worker left on the…
