Kuukuwa Manful is an architect and an urban planner. She has an historical approach to studying the contemporary issues in the built environment. She curates Adansisem, a Ghanean architecture collective and she is also the co-founder of Sociarchi, a social architecture initiative which is using inovative solutions to solve environmental and social problems.

Far from the bustle, bumper-to-bumper bus or cab riding, and the unforgiving traffic jam of Accra, Ghana’s capital city, artists are finding comfort in Nubuke, an art institution located in the city’s East Legon neighbourhood. Nested in a field of greens, Nubuke’s new extended two-storey building overlooks its original compound house premises, in the opposite direction.

« The process begins in the global North »

Depending on your home location, fashion has a different impact on our lives and direct environment and even more when it comes to fast fashion.

Liz Ricketts and J Branson Skinner, both US fashion designers, zoomed into the secondhand clothing trade, studying the plate tectonics between the global North and Ghana where their NGO “The OR Foundation” is partially based.