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Welcome to our African culture thread!  In these posts, we will be taking a closer look at some aspects of the cultural life of the countries where WEbuilding\u2019s projects are happening. We hope they pique your curiosity! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cGhanaian cinema.\u201d\nWhat comes to mind? I wasn\u2019t sure either, but as it turns out, the seventh art\nin Ghana has a turbulent and fascinating history. From its beginnings \u2013 in the\n1940\u2019s, when it first became widely accessible \u2013 cinema in Ghana was linked to\npolitics: the big screen was an important propaganda tool of the British\ncolonial government (to rally support for the war effort, among other things). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This\ncinema-politics connection continued well after the country\u2019s independence in\n1957. In 1964, President Kwame Nkrumah established the Ghana Film Industry\nCorporation, to restore cinema to the people and foster national pride and\nself-determination. In the two years until Nkrumah\u2019s overthrow in 1966, the\nGFIC produced over 150 films that served (as filmmaker Kofi Bucknor explains in\nthis informative video about the early history of cinema\nin Ghana<\/a>) as a\n\u201ctool for having Ghanaians understand what governance was about.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the subsequent political turmoil, the Ghanaian film industry entered a period of decline, until the country\u2019s first independent film hit theatres in 1981. This was Kwaw Ansah\u2019s Love Brewed in the African Pot<\/a>, a love story set in the colonial period that quickly became a classic, winning the UNESCO award for best cultural film. On the difficulty of financing his production in the face of a government-dominated film industry, Ansah recalls: \u201cIt took me about eight years. Finally, the bank gave me an audience. But then they wanted a fixed asset. I was working, I didn\u2019t even have a car.\u201d Luckily for Ansah (and for the history of African cinema) his father-in-law saved the situation by offering his house as collateral. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ghana\u2019s\nEuropean cinematic breakthrough came two years later with Kukurantumi, the Road to Accra<\/a>, by award-winning actor-director King\nAmpaw. Incidentally, this film \u2013 one of the first Ghanaian movies to be aired on\nEuropean television \u2013 is set in the same region of Ghana as Koforidua, the site\nof WEbuilding\u2019s River of Blessing Academy school project<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the same\ntime, with the advent of video in the 1980s, an independent amateur VHS film\nscene began to develop. Self-proclaimed directors would create their own scripts\nand film them with amateur actors. \u201cIt fell to people who had money to buy a\nvideo camera and shoot, it wasn\u2019t about the quality of acting, it was just to\nput something on camera,\u201d actress Anima Misa Amoah recalls. \u201cSo, in that period\na lot of people got involved who had no idea of how to direct a movie.\u201d But\nthose were the times, and there was a cultural vacuum to fill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thirty-five years on, this grassroots approach continues to inform Ghanaian films, which are becoming increasingly present on the international scene. In 2019, The Burial of Kojo<\/a>, a micro-budget local production by the 38 year-old hip-hop and visual artist Blitz Bazawule, became the first Ghanaian film to be released on Netflix, after winning numerous nominations and awards at the 15th Africa Movie Academy Awards<\/a>. Since 2017, Accra also hosts the Ndiva Women\u2019s Film Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Welcome to our African culture thread!  In these posts, we will be taking a closer look at some aspects of the cultural life of the countries where WEbuilding\u2019s projects are happening. We hope they pique your curiosity! \u201cGhanaian cinema.\u201d What comes to mind? I wasn\u2019t sure either, but as it turns out, the seventh art in Ghana has a turbulent and fascinating history. From its beginnings \u2013 in the 1940\u2019s, when it first became widely accessible \u2013 cinema in Ghana was linked to politics: the big screen was an important propaganda tool of the British colonial government (to rally support for the war …<\/p>\n

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