Together with the Kwaabuette Cultural Centre, Together with the Kwaabuette Cultural Centre, we support music and dance classes for disadvantaged children and young people in the Osu Klottey district. Kwaabuette (meaning ‘Rainbow’) is one of the earliest drumming and dance schools in Ghana and is located by the Osu Klottey Lagoon, on the coast of Accra. For over 30 years, Kwaabuette has been an important meeting place for children and young people from the local community, as well as for musicians and music enthusiasts from all over the world.
The director of the Kwaabuette Cultural Centre is Nii Adjarh Torto, who has been teaching children and young people in Accra and Europe for over 30 years. His music and dance group, the ‘Kwaabuette Cultural Troupe’, is well known beyond Ghana’s borders. In the 1990s, they also performed in Germany and led music and dance workshops at schools in Lower Saxony.
Ankwa Roots Building Project (2014–2019))
When the Kwaabuette Cultural Centre was on the verge of collapse following the exceptionally heavy rains of 2014, Ankwa Roots and Ghanaian artist Ed-Franklin Gavua launched a successful fundraising campaign to save this special cultural centre.
With donations from Germany and the help of many local volunteers, the octagonal wooden building was carefully dismantled in 2014 and reconstruction began in 2015 on a stable foundation at the same location. In February 2020, we celebrated the successful completion of the building project with many friends and supporters.
