Kaba and slit: the outfit Ghanaian women have worn to church, weddings and parliament for generations
The kaba and slit is a fitted blouse and wrap skirt cut from the same cloth. It has survived colonial dress codes, the rise of Western…
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A chief died before his cocoa-pod palanquin was ready, so they buried him in it. How Teshie invented the fantasy coffin
In the 1950s, Teshie carpenter Seth Kane Kwei built a palanquin shaped like a cocoa pod for a chief who died before he could…
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