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Without State Funding, Ghana’s Rising Stars Are Building an Art Infrastructure of Their Own to Cultivate the Next Generation of Creatives
On a freshly tiled outside stage in a grassy plot of land just off Achimota Street in Dzorwulu, just outdoors of Accra, Ghana, a couple of dancers, and musicians are practising amid six huge Cor-Ten metal shipping and delivery containers—spaces applied for rehearsals, courses, and study. The location is Terra Alta, a doing arts heart established in 2017 by artist and performer Elisabeth Efua Sutherland right after she experienced returned from finding out in the U.S. and could not come across ample locations to dance, apply, or carry out in Accra. “It can be actually discouraging to get the job done in Ghana—there is no assistance from the govt for…