Handmade In Africa
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Handmade In Africa
In the remote highlands of southern Ethiopia, a village community works together to weave a traditional bamboo house.
In his Dakar studio, craftsman Seydou Kane makes a kora from scratch. The kora is the principal instrument of the griot, a caste of west African musicians and oral historians.
For the Maasai people of the Great Rift Valley, beaded jewellery is of great ceremonial significance. Jane Semanto, a master bead maker, crafts a traditional Maasai wedding necklace.