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ART AND CULTURE Ghana, a country with a land mass of 92,100 square miles, (238,537) square kilometres) about the size of the state of Oregon, located in West Africa, with a population of over 20 million people. There are forty seven (47) different language groups with the major group forty four percent (44%) Akan. There are the Ashanti who speak TWI and the Fante speaking Akans, other groups including the Ewe who live in the South Eastern section of Ghana and also across the border in Togo. Much of the art represented here comes from those two groups. Art is the essential ingredient of a culture. Seventy-five percent of the founding board members of the Association have lived in, or traveled extensively in Africa -- three were born in West Africa. Over the past twenty to forty-five years many of our board members have been collecting and displaying African traditional and contemporary art to inform and educate Americans and people from all over the world, the history, peoples, and cultures of Africa. |
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