Collection: Hand-painted Ghanaian Movie Posters

“Starting in about 1985 and continuing until just before the millennium, there existed a Golden Age of hand-painted imagination-driven movie posters in Ghana. This was a time when market forces from abroad were minimal and these unique and exotic paintings were created solely for the local Ghanaian movie viewing audience.

The best and brightest artists of a generation* competed fiercely and directly in the public eye for this exciting new work, being careful to sign and date the great majority of these paintings. Their hand-made artistry stood its ground against the inevitable tide of printings technology that globalization thrust upon them, and for a short while, carved out a small oasis in time where man actually won out over machines!”