The Guardian Development Blog has a compelling series of short documentaries that take place in Ghana. The films tell the stories of real life in Ghana and overcoming great odds to go to school and find work in Ghana. The stories include Katumi, who, at 13: left her rural home in Ghana to work as a street …
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“Ghana’s biggest Street Art Festival attracts thousands of artists”
September 18th, 2017The Chale Wote Street Art Festival brings art, music and performance to the streets of Jamestown, a …
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The Chale Wote Street Art Festival brings art, music and performance to the streets of Jamestown, a suburb of Accra. Kenneth Gyamerah, 26, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Kumasi in Ghana describes how the festival creates appreciation among participants and patrons. Since 2011, Chale Wote has included street painting, graffiti murals, photography, theatre, spoken word, interactive art …
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The power of art to rejuvenate communities is something Sushma.R.Vishwakarma, 24, a correspondent from Bangalore, India has read about, but a visit to the port city of Kochi in India, she writes, has given her a whole new appreciation for the power of art. As an architecture student pursuing my urban design semester, I was …
Works of art should be valued based on their own merit and not based on the personality or lifestyle of their creators, writes Ashlee Burnett, 21, a Correspondent from Couva in Trinidad who shares her own experience of being an artist whose work is sometimes not viewed as independent of her. When do you separate the …