Originally produced to advertise local screenings, these hand-painted movie posters from Ghana are now sought after by art collectors. CNN values your feedback 1.

J.B. Danquah; 6. Mr. Edward Akuffo-Addo These are the venerable BIG SIX, so called because of their vigorous agitation for Ghana's independence and their subsequent imprisonment by the British ...

Jeaurs Oka Afutu, 39, began painting the posters when he was 14 years old but now works from his home in Accra, Ghana, to produce them for art dealers, selling them for between $75 and $100 apiece.

Danquah, Nkrumah, and the other Big Six got arrested on March 12 in the year 1948. Later, they got released after people in Ghana protested for their arrest. In 1960, Danquah challenged Nkrumah ...

In the late 1980s, mobile cinema businesses were burgeoning in Ghana, bringing film screenings to villages and rural areas without theatres or electricity. These makeshift "video clubs" -- usually ...