‘’DaaDaa Akɔneaba’’ is a Twi phrase that translates in English to ‘’daily goings and comings’’ or ‘’daily activities’’. As the title suggests, DaaDaa Akɔneaba is a series of drawings whose subject matter is that of the daily activities that can be observed in Ghanaian society. Where I was born and raised.

This series is my first organized body of work in the drawing format, the earliest work from which dates to the year 2023, the same year of my admission to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
This series is my first undertaking as an art student and marks my inauguration into the Drawing class.
It is a testament to the newly found ecosystem within which I find myself and the new ideas and creations that have and are yet to come of it.

On a personal level, DaaDaa Akɔneaba is a memory exercise in pursuit of my home and culture, away from which I have lived many years. It is a regathering and rearranging of remnants that linger in my ever-precious memories of times and places now past and far removed.

DaaDaa Akɔneaba is an elaborate body of work that depicts the Ghanaian culture in true detail. It addresses all areas of social function. It depicts in black ballpoint pen and wax pastel on paper Ghanaian traditional practices surrounding family, religion, medicine, food, spirituality, royalty, history, hunting, textiles, craftsmanship, ceremony, migration, history, war, etc. It depicts, through line, colour, form, texture, space, and expression, the richness and interwovenness of the various ethnic groups in Ghana, their coexistence, enduring singularity, and prosperity, notwithstanding the interaction and intermingling of their norms, beliefs, and traditional practices.

I remember yet, ever so vividly, the dancing to the drums, the occasional slaughtering of a goat for the festivities-soup, the rewarding experience of climbing an ant-infested mango tree, and the now funny cries of us children when herbal concoctions were poured down our runny noses for medicine.

DaaDaa Akɔneaba is a thesis on culture. It depicts the culmination of history and the unfolding of the future of a people as can be understood through their present way of living. It gifts its viewer a condensed and pure experience of life as lived by a people. A people who live in a place. A place in the west of the African continent, a place that lays across the western, eastern, and northern hemispheres, a place whose head points to the Sahara desert and whose feet dip into the Atlantic Ocean. A place called Ghana, whose people are the people of the place I call home.