Cedi Beads

One of the best areas for bead shopping in Ghana is the Odumase-Krobo area, a string of villages that stretches from Somanya to Kpong in the Eastern Region. Cedi Beads isn’t far from the Agomanya market, maybe 20 minutes away.  Even with the help of the beautifully hand-painted sign, the turnoff is easy to miss [...]

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Agomanya Market

One of the best areas for bead shopping in Ghana is the Odumase-Krobo area, a string of villages that stretches from Somanya to Kpong in the Eastern Region. The village of Agomanya has a twice-weekly large bead market, a pilgrimage I had to make. Saturday Sammy drove us to the Agomanya bead market. From Somanya [...]

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Buying Cloth at Makola Market

In Accra’s Makola Market area, we checked out a number of cloth shops. No luck finding any gauze cotton material I was hoping for so I could get a pair of pants made, so after asking at a half dozen shops, I gave up. Vendor displaying the olive batik cloth that I bought. A lot [...]

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Kente Weaving in Adanwomase

We returned to the kente weaving workshop where there were maybe a dozen weavers at work. Most of the remaining weavers were in the village at the funeral. As is typical in most Ghanian villages, there’s no electricity here. Kente is made in narrow strips about four inches wide and about six feet in length. [...]

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Kente Fever

I definitely had kente fever. A few steps away after buying my first cloth, another store beckons. Oh, wow! My rationalization mechanism was working overtime:  what am I going to do with it? I don’t sew, and I won’t cut it! My advice:  don’t even bother trying to rationalize it. Just buy it if you [...]

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