Some behind the scenes footage of our digitisation workflow. Music: Adjuma @m3nsa
The short story "A Time to be Stubborn" by Akorfa Dawson (link in bio) is about a young girl, married off to a man older than her, who is discovering how to free herself from the subtle shackles in her life just as Ghana attains independence from colonial rule.
It is set in the years leading up to independence in Ghana - from 1953 to 1957 - and inspired by a video of the March 1957 Independence Gala in Accra.
It was the 3rd Place Winning Entry of the #imaginingEarlyAccra competition (adult category).
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Newlyweds in the Gold Coast. 1934.
We’ve got some gifts - a little something from the Accra Archive Team - to say Oyiwaladɔŋŋ to some of our super fans, helpers, and supporters.
For those asking “what’s that string thing?”. It’s to hold your mask a little more conveniently.
The last slide is our model Lois (Assistant Project Coordinator) showing us how to use it.
In her non-fiction essay (Link in Bio) titled "The Sugar Babies in the Accra Town Hall",
@yours.eclectic explores histories of concert parties and the evolution of leisure and space in colonial Accra.
Slide 1: The various uses of Accra Town Hall at different points in time.
Slide 2: The building in its use as Parliament House depicted on a 1965 5 Cedi Note.
This essay is the 2nd Place Winning Entry of the #imaginingEarlyAccra competition (Adult Category)
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When Effia opens the front door of her childhood home, she travels back in time right into her life as a girl in the early 1950s in Accra...
Read on the #AccraArchive website now: "Transcendence", the #imaginingEarlyAccra award-winning story by Akua Serwaa Amankwah. Link in bio.
The #AccraArchive presents:
ACCRA: FUTU_RE_TROSPECT - the first of a series of exhibitions about Accra's urban and architectural history.
ACCRA: FUTU_RE_TROSPECT is an about architectural drawings in archives of Accra - from builders, designers, draughtsmen, and architects of old.
Re-visited. re-drawn, and re-viewed by young and future architects of today.
View the virtual exhibition (link in bio):
https://www.accraarchive.com/exhibitions.
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