BetumiBlog

Just a note that celebrated seamstress/designer Abbamaku in Ghana just designed some "artist wear" for my sister without ever meet...

In the 1960s and early 1970s,  Willis E. Bell was a celebrated photographer in Ghana, West Africa. In 1972, he photographed a dozen "co...

Sister Linda recently sent me a painting that she started as a rough sketch and turned into a lovely reminder of four books I have written o...

 So what IS tiger nut flour ? Ghana’s popular “tiger nuts,”  are also known as  chufa nuts . They are not actually nuts, but come from a nut...

Vegan, gluten-free Adinkra biscuits: Okay, here are two more versions: lemon (with lemon juice and zest), and groundnut (peanut) with peanut...

Yesterday I shared a photo of my gluten-free, vegan, vanilla Betumi Adinkra cookies (biscuits); today it's chocolate . When we had our ...

I realized yesterday putting these on a rack to cool, that my 5-year dream of a gluten-free version of a  shortbread biscuit (or, as we Amer...

 November 30, 2022      Never Give Up! Kwadwo is back in Ghana until January, while I'm still in Pennsylvania. I continue to work on the...

 November 5, 2022 We've been back from Ghana for over a month (though my husband Kwadwo is heading back there in a couple of weeks). I...

 Observations on Ghana after 29 months away 1. Very few people are masked, but most will  put on a mask in our house if asked. 2. There are ...

 August 26, 1972 to August 26, 2022 Fifty years ago (!), we married in Ghana. Almost 3 years ago we left Ghana abruptly when then-President ...

Sankofa and Gye Nyame Cookie Stamps    On Adinkra  Stamps       Here's the latest on the efforts to go online with BETUMI's Kitchen....

BETUMI is BACK! It's been a wild couple of years. I was in Ghana in 2019 and 2020 workshopping BETUMI's Adinkra Biscuits and Gluten-...

They say  plagiarism  is a form of flattery.  It is also a blatant form of theft. The photo at the top right is from a scanning of page 7 of...

There has been a continued interest in locating an online source for akpi seeds. This morning I discovered over a dozen replies in the co...

Ever since Nigerian Sore Shields moved from State College to go back to school and closed The African Market (near Websters, back around 2...

Hello, friends, f or an update on the BETUMI adinkra cookie stamps, check  http://betumi.com/betumi-market/ . A Limited Edition selection of...

Naomi helping get ready today. I had more requests than I could accommodate, but expect 10 folks to come for the 2-hour workshop.  Wis...

I feel kind of like that old saying "all dressed up and nowhere to go," except it should be "all set up and no way to start....

After almost two years working on the Ghana-friendly flour mixture and recipe, and perfecting the Akinkra stamps, BETUMI now has a (copyr...