Ghana Homespace - Where Ghanaian culture meets arts
This work of art is based on our desire to recenter our African symbols and use it to re-envision home spaces in our contemporary communities.
Symbols, like signs, are not mere images; they represent a language, a memory, and an embodied power coded in form. Have you thought about the Adinkra symbols What if Adinkra symbols could speak What is the depth of knowledge buried beneath colonial histories What stories would they tell What can they reveal
Symbols are living language — repositories of memory and power encoded in form.
We keep fidelity to meanings while enabling responsible modern expression.
Clear guidance for classrooms, designers, and families — not just aesthetics.
Our mission with this project is to explore the rhetoric of Adinkra symbols within digital spaces, positioning them not only as aesthetic artifacts but also as dynamic and tangible entities of communication, meaning-making, joy, and home-space creation.
Communities connected to Adinkra living, extending, and safeguarding meanings.
People reconnecting with roots, building home, and sustaining joy online.
Rhetoric, DH, and comms exploring non-Western meaning systems.
Using Adinkra responsibly in creative and digital projects.
People encountering Adinkra online joining conversations on symbolism and joy.
Felicity Sena Dogbatse is a Ph.D. student in the Rhetoric & Political Culture track in the Department of Communication. Prior to coming to UMD, Felicity completed her M.A. in Communication from Bow...Read More
Elizabeth “Lisa” Abena Osei focuses on Postcolonial Studies and African Literature, and specifically on Black Speculative Fiction. Lisa Abena Osei holds an MA in Comparative English Studies, Literature...Read More
Francis Akutey-Baffoe is from Kumasi in Ghana. He is a Preceptor of African Languages in the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Tw...Read More
