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He has also made a name for himself in the international art market, particularly for his miniature coffins. In 2019, Kpakpo's work was shown in Ghana at the mobile museum of the Ghanaian curator Nana Oforiatta Ayim. In 2024 the artist was part of the group show Magic Ghana at the gallery Magnin-A in Paris.
He was a long time considered to be the inventor in the early 1950s of design coffins or fantasy coffins, [1] called Abebuu adekai ("boxes with proverbs") by the Ga people, the dominant ethnic group of the region of Accra. Though, an anthropologist recently published a different story of the origin of the coffins.
Ataa Oko (c. 1919 –2012), sculptor, builder of figurative palanquins, and figurative fantasy coffins; Theodosia Okoh (1922–2015), teacher and designer of Ghana's national flag; Albert Opoku (1915–2002), printmaker, painter, choreographer, and dancer; Zohra Opoku (born 1976), German-born Ghanaian textile artist and photographer
Paa Joe with a sandal coffin in collaboration with Regula Tschumi for the Kunstmuseum Berne 2006. Paa Joe was born in 1947 at Akwapim in the Eastern Region of Ghana. Joe began his career with a twelve-year apprenticeship as a coffin artist in the workshop of Kane Kwei (1924–1992) in Teshie. [8] In 1976, Joe started his own business in Nungua.
Ataa Oko and his third wife, with a coffin in the form of a battleship, about 1960 Ataa Oko Addo (c. 1919 – 9 December 2012) [ 1 ] was a Ghanaian builder of figurative palanquins and figurative coffins , and at over 80 years of age he became a painter of Art Brut .
Most day names among the Mole-Dagombas are usually given to girls, and few are given to both sexes. Most Ghanaians have at least one name from this system, even if they also have an Arabic or western name. Notable figures with day names include Ghana's first president Kwame Nkrumah and former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan.
A sexual fantasy is exactly what it sounds like—a mental image or dreamed-up situation that turns you on. Some might be acted out, while others may solely be for your own imaginative safe ...
These "day names" have further meanings concerning the soul and character of the person. Middle names have considerably more variety and can refer to their birth order, twin status, or an ancestor's middle name. This naming tradition is shared throughout West Africa and the African diaspora.