Akԑ yaaa heko. One does not take it anywhere by Paa Joe and Elisabeth Efua Sutherland Courtesy Gallery 1957, Accra. Photo Nii Odzenma.
The Yaa Asantewaa Art Prize the first ever dedicated award for female African artists living and working in Africa launches today in Accra, Ghana. Organised by the Accra-based Gallery 1957, it seeks to increase the visibility of African female artists on the international art scene.
Named after the Ghanaian queen, the prize launches to coincide with the gallery’s fifth anniversary celebrations, and is open to all female and self-identifying female artists based in Ghana or belonging to the Ghanaian diaspora.
for food or fashion, you were killing it for fun. tmz s images of the newly adult miley are making the rounds online. they have pictures of her with a water pipe celebrating her 18th birthday. of course, water pipes normally associated with smoking pot. but miley was reportedly inhaling a legal herb called salvia. gawkers showing off the awesome coffins of ghana s paa joe. the california carpenter is a master carver creating caskets that look like a plane or a giant fish or a tiny car or a bird taking flight. and, in fact, we have one that looks like a cocoa pot, i think, there s the bird taking flight. paa joe, wonderful celebrations of life.