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Oku Ampofo: A Life in Wood and Medicine
The Oku Ampofo Foundation presents a biography and artwork archive for the Ghanaian physician, sculptor and herbal-medicine pioneer.
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- The biography says Ampofo walked three days to school at the start of each term, joining other student groups along the way.
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The account traces Ampofo from Amanase, where he was one of eighteen children, to medical studies in Edinburgh and evening sculpture classes. It describes his return to Mampong-Akuapem, where he opened a clinic and studio side by side, and names the Akuapem Six among the artists he gathered. The archive separates works into categories including masks and public works, while chronology and family sections provide additional routes through the material.
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