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About Ghana Movie Poster

Ghana's mobile video clubs could not print, so they painted. From the mid-1980s to 2000, artists worked oil and enamel onto stitched 50kg flour and rice sacks, rolled the results up, and carried them from village to village ahead of a generator, a TV and a VHS deck.

The result is advertising with no restraint in it: enamel grounds worked edge to edge, hands and eyes and blades drawn far past scale, ghouls invented well beyond anything in the film, and Hollywood titles hand-lettered from memory, misspellings and all. This system keeps that pressure — every surface is a painted panel, every headline carries a brushed outline.

Learn more about the Ghana Movie Poster style

Origin
Ghana — Accra, Kumasi and the mobile video-club circuit
Era
mid-1980s to 2000; peak 1990s
Key figures
Joe Mensah · D.A. Jasper · Mr Brew · Alex Boateng · Heavy J
Movements
West African sign-writing and shop-front painting · VHS video-club economy · outsider poster art

Ghana Movie Poster design spec

Colors

Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text

Typography

AntonHeadings
Caveat BrushBody
Courier PrimeMono
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