Ghana & Nigeria
Workshop-Winner:
Nicholas Danso and Amy Tetteh from Ghana and Baba Mustapha from Nigeria are the winners of the local workshop in Accra and attended the regional workshop in Ghana.
Amy Igelenyah Tetteh: Breathe
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Amy Igelenyah Tetteh is a mixed media artist based in Ghana. Since she was a child she chose art as a medium to express herself. She loves sharing her creations and providing the opportunity to different people to connect to one idea, through art.
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Nicholas Danso: Overdrive
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Nicholas Danso is a Visual Artist / Designer who has found love in entertaining and yet educating through his art. He finds joy in applying them in the mediums of graphics, drawing, animation, photography and filmmaking. Living in Accra, Ghana, with his family, he works freelance to the best of his abilities.
Baba Mustapha: The Politian's Son
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Baba Mustapha has always loved stories since he was a child and having his folks read them just wasn’t enough. He wanted to live these stories and create his own adventures. That’s how he started drawing. Today, as a digital illustrator/animator, he mainly enjoys turning words into pictures. Over the years he has picked up many tricks and techniques and never stopped learning. He has worked on several projects for advertising and media agencies as well as for companies in various fields. Currently he works as a freelance artist and pursues his passion: Creating visual stories.
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Akowua Brako Siemens: Shine
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Akowua Siemens Brako is a 26 year old Ghanaian. He is a graphic designer and an illustrator.
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Originalbigwig Artist: Abena
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Artist Solomon Baah Aboagye, popularly known as Originalbigwig Artist, kicked off his career as a street artist before starting to explore illustration and animation through digital tools. Since 2013 he has been working largely as a digital artist with a focus on local and global socio-political issues. He lives and works in Kumasi, Ghana.
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Love Anuforo: Love For Hate
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Love Anuforo is a children’s story teller and a language-literacy advocate who is passionate about illustrating stories that promote values for social change. Her work is majorly centered on creating resource materials and visual aids to facilitate the acquisition of languages in children.
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Kofi Berko & Rashid Yahaya: The Breast Monster
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Kofi Konadu Berko is a Ghanaian writer whose work explores identity, family and relationships. He has been writing short stories for children and young adults since 2016. His work has appeared in Waterbirds on The Lakeshore, Tampered Press and Kalahari Review, among others.
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Abdul-Rashid Yahaya is a 2D animator, Illustrator and a Graphic Designer in Ghana, Accra. My works normally portray social justice in a comic way and sometimes in a very gory way.
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