Former Head of Visual Arts at the Centre for National Culture, Kizito Nii Amarh Amartey, has called on the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board to collaborate with Ghanaian artists in the preservation of our culture and heritage.
Speaking at the second edition of an Arts exhibition dubbed ‘Contemporary_emerge,’ on Saturday, December 9, 2023, Mr Amartey, voiced concerns over how Ghana is gradually losing its cultural identity.
He noted that with the advent of various modern appliances like blenders, fufu pounding machines, cooking stoves, etc., traditional kitchen utensils that were once highly regarded and emblematic of our society, such as the grinding stone, mortar, and pestle, are gradually losing their value and could soon become extinct.