Cultural snapshot exhibits Ghana experience at Iowa museum
Cedar Rapids hosts the one year anniversary exhibit Iowa in Ghana featuring Dr. D Michael Warren and the Bono of Takyiman. Warren, an ISU professor and Peace Corps volunteer in 1964, documented Bono birth rites festivals and healer practices. Kofi Sarpong, a Ghanaian healer and historian, leads Saturday talk at 11 30 a m at the center.
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Bono heritage exhibit opens at Iowa museum
The African American Historical Museum hosts an anniversary exhibit featuring Ghanaian healer Kofi Sakyi Sarpong at 11 AM with a film on Dr. D. Michael Warren. Ghanaian drum and dance demonstrations run 11 AM to 4 PM, African cuisine served noon to 2 PM. Warren, a USC researcher, connected Iowa and Ghana through digitization of nearly 2,000 slides and a Bono cultural project.
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