AKWAABA!

Welcome! Africa is in great transition. One of them is the large urbanization and alienation of traditional life and culture - the same process as other countries going thru modernization has experienced. After years as part time African muting to the West African country Ghana - with mane camp in Norway Scandinavia - I have learned to love the culture, and the rich art work. "My Africa" is a celebration of the combination of beautiful african images and the Scandinavian make-it-yourself approach to life. I intend to share how traditions can be kept alive in modern life style, as well as present practical suggestions to others that try to combine multicultural family life. I can be contacted for consultancy work in both Ghana and Norway.

tirsdag 9. november 2010

Marriage of two cultures


A cross cultural wedding is a golden opportunity of bringing together the beauty of two cultures, rather than dressing in what has become a uniformed white dressed bride and black suited groom. At left the traditional Ashanti Kente and Norwegian Bunad. (Foto Vedlog)



Below the Norwegian designer Lise Sjåk Bræk has married the two costumes in a Norwegian dress made with woven Kente fabric.


Kente was traditionally used by the royals. It is made up of a number of fine woven strips that is sawn together into a larger pice, often made by young boys. Different color combination and patterns give different meanings, and represents different locations - as do the various Norwegian bunads.














(Foto Opoku)
Various kente patterns from Ghana and Togo.
(Foto Sjåk Bræk)
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