Object of Desire: Fitted Black Vest Top by MeFiRi Ghana

[£9.99] www.mefirighana.com

No wardrobe should be without one of MeFiRi Ghana's fabulous T-Shirts....

Music: The Northern Tribes CD

This exciting album was first recorded on location in 1975 -and features an eclectic mix of instruments (including the, donnos (hourglass-shaped pressure drums), guluzoro and gulusago lace drums, siyari (calabash rattle), gonje (bowed lute), Xylophone, wile (flute) ganga (a cylindrical double headed drum) and the gungonga (pressure drums), -and vocal music in the delicious languages’ of Northern Ghana (including songs recorded: in Mamprusi - (vocal with drums), Grunshi - (vocal with drums), Frafra - (vocal with calabash rattle), Kusasi - (solo with gonje), Dagarti - (xylophone solo), Dagarti - (vocal with xylophone), Kasena - (vocal with calabash/ensemble of flutes & drums/solo with knono (£6.99) -www.amazon.co.uk

* I pray that we never get to the place -where we have to visit museums to remember [all] the beautiful languages of Ghana...xx

Random: College of Physicians -Ghana

Culture: Our ancestors in Surinam

Like Accompong in Jamaica, -the Maroons and other descendants of slaves found in the jungles of Surinam are predominately from Ghana. If you visit my last posting about Surinam -you’ll be pleasantly surprised to find out that they also name their children according to the day their born on.

Random: Sethi Plaza, Kwame Nkrumah Avenue, Accra

The Spirit: A prayer for all the hungry children in the world.....xx

I Want to See My Father by our King Ayisoba is the song of ‘Africa’. The song [and video] is a very powerful testimony to the fact that –a life where your father, is a father in name only -is a life of struggle. This morning –I pray God will feed every waking child in the world [especially in East Africa]..... And give them peace -Amen.

Culture: The National Museum of Ghana

Located on Barnes Road, The National Museum of Ghana is an important museum housing the largest collection of Ghana's historical treasures. It is the largest and oldest of the six museums under the administration of the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board and offers West Africa's best ethnographic, historical, objects of archaeology, fine art -and art collections from both Ghana, the rest of the continent.

Objects in the archeology section range from the Stone Age period to the recent historical past. Those on permanent exhibition at the ethnography gallery include chief’s regalia, indigenous Ghanaian musical instruments, gold weights, beads, traditional textiles, stools and pottery. There are also objects from other African countries acquired through exchange. Examples are Senfu masks from Ivory Coast, Zulu wooden figures and bead-ware from Southern Africa. In addition there are also ancient Ife bronze heads from Nigeria and Bushongo carvings from the Congo.

Exhibits at the small but impressive art gallery consist mainly of contemporary Ghanaian paintings executed in oils, pastels, acrylics, watercolors and collages. Apart from these there are sculpture pieces in different media by Local craftsmanship. Ceremonial artifacts common among the Akan and other tribes -are also on display.

**The museum building was opened on 5 March 1957 as part of Ghana’s independence celebrations. The official opening was performed by Duchess of Kent, the late Princess Marina.

Address: Barnes Rd. Accra Ghana
Tel: 233-021-221633
Fax: 233-021-221635
Opening Times: 0830-1600 daily

**Are you interested in doing some voluntary work at this great museum –then check out this link [http://www.ikando.org/museum.html] for more information?

******Can someone give me the website for: The National Museum of Ghana please?