Behind Ghana's Unofficial Movie Posters

We don’t remember Garfield having weapons and did Groundhog Day really have a GIANT groundhog eating humans?!

A handful of highly skilled artists in Ghana are behind some of the most imaginative, beautiful and exaggerated film posters. These posters are hilarious, captivating, colorful and highly impressive. So much so, that they’ve become a worldwide sensation!

Whilst you may disregard these as misleading bootlegs, anthropologist Dr. Joseph Oduro-Frimpong believes that these posters are vital artifacts of Ghanaian art, history and culture. And he should know, he’s collected over one hundred of them. We begin Black History Month with this story exploring the incredible talent Ghana has to offer…

Special thanks to the Ashesi Center for African Popular Culture.

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00:00 Preparing the tools
00:20 Its the Godfather
00:28 Why they look different
00:50 Meet local expert, Joseph Oduro-Frimpong
01:25 The posters got more extreme
01:53 Imaginative Painting
02:03 How the posters changed with the times
02:37 Who is buying these posters?

Video credits:
Lead Producers: Stuart Smillie and Louis Fitton
Producer: Michael Ansah
Crew: Hector Kugbadzor, Richard Ocloo and Koffi Lansi
Edit: Steve Kelly

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