Amoafi is a story-teller and musician from Ghana, West Africa, and during the project she showed some of her own pictures to the children and talked about Ghana.

The cocoa tree has fruits all the way down so that even children can pick it. The fruit tasted like nectarine but juicier with a nut inside (the cocoa bean). This is made into cocoa butter lotion, hair cream and fermented drinks. The leaves are used for healing skin. One pod will hold 30 beans. Amoafi has two trees in her garden.

Amoafi also talked about the insects and the termites which are white ants that build very strong mounds, like concrete, that must be broken with axes (see picture above right).

Ghana has over 500 kilometres of coastline. The beaches have fine white sand and are usually lined with coconut trees.

The Flamboyant tree above is called dua in Twi. means seed pod and it is used as a musical instrument when dried. If you go to the Songs and Games page in Project 8 from Brent knoll School you can hear the sound the makes at the end of the GOREI IYE song.

Amoafi talked about the Ghanaian schools, trees (see pictures above) and houses (some old and new like here).

She also described what day to day life was like in Ghana for children and how the African children all help to look after each other.

A day-in-the-life of a Ghanian child was then typed up and e-mailed to the class teacher so that the children could practice enacting it for their assembly (see the Songs, stories, drama section).

Amoafi also brought in some objects and musical instruments from her own home. She talked about each musical instrument and how it was played, these included: gourd shaker, rattle, talking drum, cow bells.

Photos were taken of the objects which included games, statues, pots and fans, and these are shown on the page with images. Amoafi also compiled the following page of information about Ghana.