Ghana 2019 - Market, Ashanti palace and Kumasi’s cultural center

We spent the afternoon in Kejetia, West Africa’s largest open-air market. It was so much fun taking our students, many of whom had never left the US before this week, around those acres and acres of color, smells, sounds, and general vitality. I found this man half-napping in his fabric stall and he was kind enough to let me take this photo. The cloth that the Ashanti people weave is so vibrant, so intricate and vivid, that the patterns feel like little microcosms of the market itself.

Before the market, we spent the morning touring the museums of the Ashanti palace and Kumasi’s cultural center, both of which provide a lot of important context to the place that we’ve been and why it’s so significant to Ghana.