I've only recently become aware of an interesting exhibition of Ghanaian paintings, "Hollwood Icons, Local Demons," that has appeared at several museums since the early 2000s (it will be exhibited again at Marquette University in Wisconsin in 2011). The show features some fantastically bizarre posters painted as advertisements for concert parties (a Ghanaian popular theater form combining vaudeville-type antics with ananse-like characters and guitar-band highlife music).
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| The Bizarre: A monster from a Kakaiku "concert." |
Here we have posters of three bands, A.B. Crentsil's Ahenfo Band (formed after Sweet Talks), the City Boys Band, and Super Yaw Ofori's Band (which I don't know much about). Below is a short excerpt of a nice review from the journal American Anthropologist that provides some more background information. I encourage reading the full article, which you may download here as a PDF. Click "Read More" to look at more of the paintings and listen to Super Yaw Ofori's Band.
