00:00Hello the 77 percentiles, my name is Halasa Musa Chintoni,
00:04speaker of the Northern Regional Youth Parliament and I welcome you to the third largest city
00:09in Ghana. I welcome you to Tamale. Tamale is the beating heart of northern Ghana.
00:14It's the center for the country's Islamic faith with 90.5 percent being practicing Muslims.
00:19The fast-growing city has just under 1 million residents and it's a melting pot of cultures.
00:25And Musa knows it needs lots of food to fuel the city, so he takes us to try the local favorite.
00:31Food forms part of the culture of people across the world and in Tamale,
00:34we also have our local food termed as Suu Zaafi or tea set and this is made from maize to be
00:41precise. After it has been harvested and then to be taken to the grinding mill,
00:45it will turn it into flour and then you just have to get your hot water, you just sprinkle
00:50the flour on it, so you know, keep stirring till it turns this way and I'm to eat it with
00:57a local soup called Bra as well. It's so delicious.
01:03Along with bowls of delicious Tua Zaafi, Tamale is known for tailoring Ghana's traditional
01:08smor kata. Women create the materials while skilled craftsmen finish the final product.
01:14Musa took us to a nearby tailor to witness the painstaking process firsthand.
01:21Today, we are here at one of the places where our local things are made. So come,
01:26let's have a look at it, how it is turned into nice smocks. So you can see,
01:31we still preserve our tradition by making it with our hands. Despite the fact that there
01:36is modernity, we still hold firm onto our tradition. We still make it with our bare hands
01:42and this is a way of protecting and preserving our tradition and this is who we are.
01:47On the streets, most people own a motorbike for personal or business use but sadly,
01:52most road accidents also involve motorbikes.
01:55Musa and others joined Ghana's road safety initiative to educate riders.
01:59So today, we are here to engage them on the need to put on the crash helmet.
02:07So that is the sensitization or the education that we are doing. Critically, when you look at
02:12it, you realize that they don't put on a crash helmet and this is something that
02:15is a major cause of road accidents in Tamale.
02:18As the sand dips below the horizon, Musa leads us to Red Clay Studio.
02:23Established by renowned Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama, it's like stepping into another world
02:29with captivating contemporary art adorning every corner.
02:33In there, we have a lot of things, old engines of jets including old sunshine boxes and some
02:40of the beds that were used during the world wars and then as well, we have the capital corpses
02:46which is made of old tailors brought together by this young and talented man just to inspire
02:52or bring back to life their history. This is an aeroplane and in it, we have a classroom.
02:59We have furniture, you know, in it and during weekends, young people come,
03:03students come to learn coding, how to use a drone and how to use basic ICT tools.
03:09The Red Clay Studio is an artist-run project space, exhibition hub,
03:13cultural repository and artist residency.
03:16Emblematic of Tamale itself, it's a site looking to the future.
03:21When I walk through the city of Tamale and look into the eyes of young people,
03:25I see hope, I see resilience, I see determination and I believe that these young people would
03:32contribute towards the development of Mother Tamale as well as Mother Ghana.
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