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#theguardian.com. × Ebo Taylor obituary. Ghanaian guitarist, arranger, singer-songwriter and cult hero who rose to fame outside Africa only late in life

#theguardian.com. × Ebo Taylor, Ghanaian highlife pioneer and guitarist, dies age 90. Taylor, who did for Ghanaian music what his friend Fela Kuti did for Nigeria, has been called the greatest rhythm guitarist in history

#theguardian.com. × ‘People cry, get angry’: remembering the enslaved in Ghana’s remarkable sculpture park. Kwame Akoto-Bamfo started by shaping one clay head in 2009. Now thousands are displayed at the Nykyinkyim Museum, each representing an African who was lost to slavery

#theguardian.com. × Ghana pays for the west’s wastefulness | Letters. Letter: The Kantamanto market fire highlighted to Miah Redmond that the country’s future should not be built on the waste of others, but on its own industries

#theguardian.com. × ‘Dead white person’s clothes’ mount up as Ghana’s Kantamanto market struggles to rebuild after fire. Six weeks after a devastating blaze in Accra ripped through one of the world’s biggest secondhand markets, many stalls remain unfinished and thousands still have no income

#theguardian.com. × From escaped child bride to artist: why one Ghanaian painter puts women at the centre of her work. Hawa Awanle Ayiboro’s solo exhibition opens this month in Accra with paintings that explore a difficult period in her childhood and the emancipation of other women

#theguardian.com. × ‘The image is a call to honour our roots’: Reginald Kofi Boateng’s best phone photo. Exploring themes of identity, heritage and individuality, the Ghanaian photographer used surreal colours to add a dreamlike quality

#theguardian.com. × Massive cleanup under way in Ghana after fire destroys one of world’s biggest secondhand markets. Thousands of traders face ruin after blaze razes two-thirds of Accra’s Kantamanto, which receives an estimated 15m used clothes from global north each week

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