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Artisans
The last practitioners of age-old crafts.
Ghanaian glassblower Michael Tetteh, 44, blows glass at his glassware manufacturing workshop in Krobo Odumase, Ghana March 15, 2022. Picture taken March 15, 2022. REUTERS/Francis Kokoroko
Climate change

The green glassblower on a mission to free his country of foreign glass

Michael Tetteh, Ghana’s only professional glassblower, recycles scrap glass – drinks bottles, TV screens, window panes – by turning it into elaborate vases swirling with colour.

15 Apr 2022 - 6:15PM
Art

‘An extension of a tree’s life’: carpenters celebrate their craft in show

21 Jan 2022 - 11:32AM
Art

Labourer with a passion for calligraphy fights to preserve the Arabic art

25 Dec 2021 - 6:15PM
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