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…
I recently decided to sell my children’s picture book The Frog and Lizard’s Final Goal on AdinkraScrolls. I had heard about AdinkraScrolls in mid-2021 when I went to a GAW…
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…
