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Ghana Culture Page

The color they wear is an essential element of every outfit, but girls and women mostly wear wrap skirts

Ghana's food

They eat soup or stew most of the time

Recipe: Kontomire Stew

Heat oil in a saucepan. Fry onions and pepper for 2 minutes, add dried ground shrimps and tomatoes. Cook for another 10 minutes. Add meat with the stock. Prepare and add fish, stir and allow to simmer for a few minutes. Add the agushi mix with water and kpakpo shito. Add the chopped leaves when the agushi is cooked and simmer for about 5 minutes. Serve hot with boiled plantain, yam, rice, coco yam, etc. || *  2 bundles of coco yam leaves (kontomire)or spinach > >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >
 * Method || Ingredients ||
 * Cut meat into pieces, wash and season with a bit of salt, garlic and ginger. Place in a cooking pot a put it on the fire, bring to the boil and cook till tender. Grind pepper and tomatoes and slice the onions. Pick, wash and chop the kontomire or spinach leaves.
 * 4 medium sized tomatoes
 * 2 large onions
 * 1lb meat or tripe, cooked
 * 8oz smoked fish
 * 8oz agushi
 * ¼pt palm oil
 * 2 dessertspn. dried ground shrimp
 * 1 clove garlic salt, pepper and ginger to taste
 * kpakpo shito ||

Ghana's arts Many peoples of Ghana create beautiful pieces of art some examples are: Kente cloth brass castings stamped Adinkra cloth used in funerals stools carved of wood and royal arts > like playing the drums in ceromonies. > This is a form of art because they use the pattern of the drums as a form of talking.
 * But they dont just creat art like that they also use music as a form of art
 * To see videos about this click this ==> http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart