Basket weaving is a lucrative business in Ghana. The country exported roughly $800,000 of baskets in 2016, and the industry has created a major source of employment for women in rural areas.
Apambila is one of 200,000 women in Bolgatanga, Bolga for short, who create handwoven Veta Vera grass baskets, famously known as Bolga Baskets.One of Ghana's biggest Bolga basket exporters, Dominic Abakuri says the practice of weaving baskets is a traditional skill as old as the community and has been passed on from generations."Once you are born here, you grow up with the skill from childhood, and then, you do it as a kind of extra activity," he told CNN.
By 2023, the Ghanaian market hopes to double its exports and international markets for the baskets.Creating a decent spaceThe Bolga baskets are undoubtedly booming in and out of Ghana, but weaving them is not without problems. According to Bolga basket weaver, Apambila, there is no decent place to sit while working. Primary infrastructure like sheds for the weavers to sit in and weave is unavailable.
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