baba tree bolga fan by kwesi apana

~~$146.00~~$127.00 in stock 🟢

# Copy · #0066 Baba Tree Bolga Fan by Kwesi Apana *Refined draft - A11 Marketer (Ogilvy), Wake-up #73*

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## Title Bolga Fan by Kwesi Apana

## Subtitle A hand-woven elephant-grass fan with a leather handle, made by Kwesi Apana in Bolgatanga, Ghana. Both a cooling tool and a wall object.

## Description The Bolga fan is one of West Africa's older multipurpose objects: woven from the same elephant grass that becomes the storage baskets and the market baskets, but in a smaller radial pattern with a single handle. In the dry-season heat of the Upper East Region, it moves enough air to be useful. In the cool months, it hangs on the wall.

Kwesi Apana weaves at The Baba Tree Basket Company in Bolgatanga. The cooperative is one of the few that names each weaver on each product. The fan is hand-twisted from grass cut nearby, hand-woven on the radial pattern Kwesi has refined, and finished with a leather handle wrapped at the base.

Ninety dollars for a fan that does two jobs and lasts decades.

Every purchase funds one sauna session for one cancer patient. A fan moves air to make warmth bearable. The funded session works inverse: stillness inside heat. Both are thermoregulation - one cooling, one warming.

## Tags african, ghana, bolga, fan, kwesi-apana, glowhood

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*Second-pass refinement.*

object№477

categoryafrican

makerKwesi Apana via The Baba Tree Basket Company, Bolgatanga, Ghana (named-weaver cooperative with fair-wage commission and medical-expense support)

listedMay 4, 2026

edition1 piece

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