Should development be firmly rooted in a national vision? If so, where can one find this voice better than at the nucleus of national heritage, the National Museum of Ghana? The museum remains the depository of Ghana’s rich and vivid past, housing the most extensive and intriguing art collection in the country.
All over the continent, National Museums are viewed as relics of a colonial past, seldom frequented by visitors, undermining their own importance in shaping the national vision and development agenda.
The ArchiAfrika newsletter features some of the ongoing discourse, with Rachel Stella Jenkins interviewing Dr. Amekudi, Director of the Museum, and some of the key staff members of the institute, exploring the past, the present and possible future plans of Ghana’s National Museum. Mae-ling Lokko unfolds the architectural history of the building, one of the extraordinary examples of tropical Modernism, designed by the British architect Sir Denys Lasdun.
In the newsletter, Rafael Chikukwa also reports about these issues in a broader African perspective. The up and coming painter Fatric Bewong underlines the role the National Museum can play in finding new ways for cultural development: a workshop space for artistic explorations which investigate the past.
We also would like to present to you one of the drivers of growth on the continent: Laurus Development Partners CEO Carlo Matta in an interview with Rachel Stella Jenkins.
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