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Ibrahim Mahama Brings Ghana’s Industrial Past to Paris

Ibrahim Mahama dressed in dark blue, seated among wooden Asante stools arranged on stepped seating.

In 1966, a glass bottle factory opened in Aboso, in southwestern Ghana. It was one of the last large projects started under Kwame Nkrumah, the country’s first president, before he was overthrown in a military coup that same year. After decades of restructuring and privatisation, the factory was abandoned. According to the Fondation Cartier pour […]