Ghana | Design Indaba

Ghana’s national pavilion

How do you define freedom? Ghana’s flag provides a clue – as does its striking pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale >
An Architect’s Agenda

David Adjaye’s first design for Ghana’s visionary healthcare initiative to be built in 2022 >
Out of this world

Ghanaian artist Steloo channels Zambian ‘Afronaut’ >
A changing landscape

This week: Design takes Gold in Tokyo; the war on waste; and artists changing norms… >
#DI Exclusive: Steloolive launches his latest experimental project, NiKANiKA Robotics

Maverick Ghanian muso and #DI18 performer Steloolive shares his most recent artistic explorations with us >
#DI Exclusive: Steloolive launches his latest experimental project, NiKANiKA Robotics

Maverick Ghanian muso and #DI18 performer Steloolive shares his most recent artistic explorations with us >
Ghana’s wunderkind Ibrahim Mahama to shared his monumental artworks at Design Indaba 2020

Ibrahim Mahama spoke at the 2020 Design Indaba Conference. >
Ibrahim Mahama

Artist

Ibrahim Mahama is a Ghanaian mixed-media artist. >
Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama will be speaking at Design Indaba 2020

The artist and author is famed for draping buildings in materials, like jute sacks, as a comment on our complicated colonial histories. >
Limbo Accra, how design is saving a city caught in limbo

Art platform, Limbo Accra, explores the urban structures of the city of Accra >
How digital technologies can help Africa’s smallholder farmers

The various applications of digital tech in agriculture could produce unprecedented results on the continent. >
How these Ghanaian developers are creating awareness around e-waste

Ghanaian game developers, Enter Africa, are creating a game that focuses on the issues of safety and sanitation surrounding e-waste dumps. >
African architecture: Ornaments, crime & prejudice

Mathias Agbo, Jr. reflects on the importance of African ornamentation and the stories they convey. >
DJ Steloo's latest work looks to the ocean for inspiration

Called Stitches From The Ocean, the Accra-based creative says he wanted to let the audience into the other side of his creative process. >
Colors of the Earth: Ghana's incredible, rammed earth walls

Ghanaian entrepreneur Joelle Eyeson is experimenting with the sustainable technique that could aid her country's housing problem. >
Accra's Arch Xenus is redefining what it means to be a successful architectural firm

We met the founder and principal architect who shared more about their approach to business. >
Anarchic creativity in Accra with Francis Kokoroko & Daniel Quist

“We are easily bored, so we are always pushing ourselves to be creative. With photography, with fashion, with whatever we do – we try to do what’s different.” >
Reviving the history of cocoa production in Ghana

The team behind the concept will be exhibiting at Design Indaba Festival 2019 to showcase design and architecture's role in shaping place >
Smart Havens Africa uses human-centered business models to help the poor build homes

The company looks at developing green houses by promoting sustainable building and also tackling housing poverty. >
Making sense of Ghana’s built environment with architect Alice Asafu-Adjaye

Design needs to be driven more by people’s needs and less by ego, says the architect. >
Damon Davis explores Ghana's slave past and its impact on black America

“...the world tells us that our identity doesn’t matter and our story doesn’t matter and our lives don’t matter.” >
Indelibl wants to make art by Africans more accessible

Both online and offline, the platform is committed to taking art beyond the gallery space. >
Acknowledging Ghana's slave trade history with sculptor Kwame Akoto-Bamfo

“As a Ghanaian who is interested and inspired by Ghanaian and African culture, I'm a living witness to the knowledge that is being lost to time.” >
Afrolitt founder Pamela Ohene-Nyako on the importance of having black literature voiced and heard

“I feel like some works can really open up one’s imagination and help us envision inclusive and liberated futures.” >

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