Dr W. Stephen Howard visits eShopAfrica

Director of the African Studies Program at Ohio University, W. Stephen Howard is also director of the Institute for the African Child, which he founded to promote progressive development of children and their families across the African world. Dr Howard paid a curtsy visit to eShopAfrica during his short stay in Ghana. He commented on the efforts that eshopAfrica is making to help African artisans to expose their art and crafts globally.

eShopAfrica supplies Ohio University with personilized kente stoles for thier garduation .

Stars pendants

1.Recycled bottles will be crushed into pieces which called"fritt"

2.The moulds are put into a kiln to be baked.

The kiln has to be hot enough to melt down the lumps of glass in the fritt.

3.The hole made by an awl... this is skilled work which has to be done

quickly before the glass cools.

4.When cool they are polished on a stone using sand and water. This grinds down the rough edges and removes the kaolin.

5. Cute and beautiful...what do you think????

Beads Artisan visiting eShopAfrica

Mr Israel Kumah owner of "Lizzy Beads" has visited eShopAfrica office in Accra. Israel and his wife Elizabeth have been brought up in beads business . The shop is in Somanya in the Eastern region of Ghana where beautiful recycled beads are made.

Mr Kumah works with all types of recycled beads,powdered as wel as painted.

He thanked eShopAfrica for their support to artisans.

"Lizzy beads "you are warmly welcomed to be part of the great family of eShopAfrica.com

Ghana Beads Society..alot to learn about beads!

GBS meets at the W.E.
DuBois Center in Cantonments/Accra
on the first Friday of every month
from 2pm-3:30pm.We meet to discuss all aspects
of beads..history,importance, production….etc .Bead & Brass
producers as well as traders come & present their products for sale on those days.

We are looking forward to our next meeting in September.................

Peace Corps partnership

Today we met with Dave McNally, an Associate Director with the Peace Corps, and John Park, a Peace Corps volunteer located near Kumasi. We discussed different areas where we could work together in partnership. We particularly talked with John Park about working with some of the Kente weavers located in his village. We also set up a meeting later in November to meet with some of the local artisans and cement this new relationship.

Beers of the World

In the April/May 07 edition of Beers of the World magazine our beer coffins scored a hit. The piece reminds us that Homer Simpson dreams of being buried in a beer coffin - Homer - eShopAfrica can make your dream come true! Read the piece.

eShopAfrica in National Geographic

In the September 2005 special edition of National Geographic on Africa eShopAfrica was mentioned:

See the original

eShopAfrica.com This Ghana based fair trade website helps African craftspeople build their businesses by offering products ranging from kente cloth and other textiles to custom-made coffins. Profits help pay for education and health care.