{"id":643,"date":"2009-05-11T23:50:34","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T07:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebuffington.net\/?p=643"},"modified":"2013-10-12T11:55:38","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T18:55:38","slug":"ghana-week-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.mikebuffington.net\/02\/?p=643","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Week One"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nFourteen of us in the DFM strand made a book for our Ghanaian friends.<\/p>\n


\nIt had the research we prepared for our trip.<\/p>\n


\nI kept the projecting going strong with my mad InDesign skills that I learned from 3 years working on Southwest Hydrology.<\/p>\n


\nWhen I got to Ghana I pulled out some Cedis right from the ATM.<\/p>\n


\nThey were crisp and brand new, unlike all the other dirty bills I have seen since.<\/p>\n


\nOne of our first trips was to small artisan villages in Accra. Jess and I visited some drum makers. This is a drum spinning fast on a lathe.<\/p>\n


\nThey are rough cut by hand before that stage.<\/p>\n


\nWe had an impromptu jam session with dance.<\/p>\n


\nThey were really great.<\/p>\n

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\nOne of the drum makers with his son.<\/p>\n


\nOn the road to Kumasi there were large termite hills. You can see a pair of jeans in the hut for size comparison.<\/p>\n


\nTom Barker introducing the project during the opening ceremonies.<\/p>\n


\nAymeric and the others have been going DSLR crazy. It’s embarrassing.<\/p>\n


\nEfrain and Matthew are waiting for their lunch.<\/p>\n


\nI got a plate of Red Red, an amazing beans and plantain dish. GH\u00a2 1.50.<\/p>\n


\nEfrain and I asked for extra beans.<\/p>\n


\nA lady walked by with a tray of neatly stacked peanuts on her head.<\/p>\n


\nAnd outside a man and woman prepared fufu.<\/p>\n


\nIt’s extremely hard work and fun to watch. She gets her hand out of the way just in time. <\/p>\n


\nWe are working with the KNUST school artists.<\/p>\n


\nThis was the art education room.<\/p>\n


\nMy Ghanian partner, Charles, is studying in this rural art department.<\/p>\n

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\nA man punching holes in sandals.<\/p>\n


\nLive chickens carried in the normal way.<\/p>\n


\nIn the Central market in Kumasi.<\/p>\n


\nPalm fruit on the go.<\/p>\n

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\nWe stop for some fresh coconut water…<\/p>\n


\n…cut right in front of us. 50 pesewas.<\/p>\n

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\nThe view from a bridge near the central market.<\/p>\n


\nBeans: ingredient number one of Red Red. I have mainly seen black eyed peas used in the meal.<\/p>\n

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\nPalm fruit, used to make…<\/p>\n


\n…red palm oil, the first “red” in Red Red, and second ingredient at the market. I didn’t get a picture of the third, gary, which is like a flour made from the calabash gourd.<\/p>\n


\nAnd finally, ripe red plantains, the other ‘red’ in Red Red.<\/p>\n


\nDried plantain strips are more like potato chips than banana chips.<\/p>\n


\nAnother plate of Red Red. No surprise there.<\/p>\n


\nA weaver works on a strip of fabric…<\/p>\n


\n…and Simon gives it a go at another loom.<\/p>\n

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\nAdinkra stamps from the calabash gourd.<\/p>\n


\na skilled craftsman who has learned adinkra stamping from his family tells us how they make the ink.<\/p>\n


\nFirst they grind up a specific tree bark and soak and boil it.<\/p>\n


\nThey then strain it.<\/p>\n


\nAnd it is this dark.<\/p>\n


\nThey then let it sit and do a few more things, and it becomes this dark.<\/p>\n


\nAfter a while it gets to this darkness and consistency.<\/p>\n

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\nA nice familiar bumper sticker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,7,9],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-art","tag-design","tag-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.mikebuffington.net\/02\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.mikebuffington.net\/02\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.mikebuffington.net\/02\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.mikebuffington.net\/02\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.mikebuffington.net\/02\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/archive.mikebuffington.net\/02\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1274,"href":"https:\/\/archive.mikebuffington.net\/02\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions\/1274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.mikebuffington.net\/02\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.mikebuffington.net\/02\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.mikebuffington.net\/02\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}