Ghana’s cultural heritage portrayed in New Vodafone Head Office

Ghana’s cultural heritage is on display at the new head office of Vodafone Ghana located at Airport City in Accra.

During a media tour at the offices coordinated by Angela Mensah Poku, Business Manager, she told media men that the building has 8-floors with a ground zero one.

According to Ms. Mensah, each of the floors represents all the ten regions in the country with exclusive portraits and drawings depicting locations and cultural settings of each region including a floor representing the three Northern regions.

The Greater Accra Region floor had a painting of the Jamestown Lighthouse, the one for the Ashanti Region has a drawing of a “Bonwire Kente”, the Eastern Region is portrayed by the Aburi Botanical Gardens, the three Northern regions are depicted by the Gbewa Palace, the Mole National Park and the Paga Crocodile Pond.

Central, Brong Ahafo, Volta and the Western Regional floors are all depicted by portraits of  the Elmina Castle, Kintampo falls, Wli falls and beaches respectively.

Explaining the reason behind this, the Chief Executive Officer of Vodafone Ghana, Mr Kyle Whitehill said the company wants to promote tourism in the country under a concept dubbed “One Company, local roots” and added that all the drawings were made by local artists.

Among the artists were Kobina Nyarko who drew an “Adinkrahene” symbol, Frederick Oko Mantey drew a portrait of a Volta Waves to show rhythmic colours of indigenous Ghanaians. Other artists include Maxwell Boadi, Samuel asamoah and Ebenezer Borlabie.

On the walls, some Ghanaian proverbs have been written. These include, “Nature gave us two cheeks instead of one to make it easier to eat hot food”, “No one tests the depth of the river with both feet”, among others.

The luxurious building with 90% local content takes 650 workers which according to the CEO was of a tiny cost of not more than 1% of Vodafone’s total cost.

By Ekow Quandzie