Daniel Mensah

Not to be confused with Daniel Mensah Kwei.

Daniel Mensah, 2006

Daniel Mensah bɛ dɔɣi o la yuuni 1968 ni, o nyɛla bɛ ni la hi mi so ni Hello, o nyɛla zuliya shabi ban nyɛ Ga la kaapinta ni ŋun lan maani kumdaadaka malibu kam. O nyɛla ŋun kuli tumdi o zuɣu kaapinta tuma fɔŋ yuli booni Teshie, n be Greater Accra, Ghana tingban ni.

O lahibali zaa

Bɛ dɔɣi o la yuuni 1968 puuni bɛ ni mi yaɣi shɛli ni Teshie ni la , Daniel Mensah nyɛla ŋun daa piligi o tuma bɔhimbu binshɛɣu din gbaai yuuni 1984 halli ni yuuni 1990 puuni, o daa bela Ga zuliya kum daadaka maani ŋun yuli daa booni Paa Joe ŋun gba daa bɔhim kum daadaka tali tuma la nucheeni tuun baŋdi ŋun yuli daa booni Kane Kwei ( bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so yuuni 1924 ka o daa paɣi naawuni yuuni 1992 puuni la) tiŋyuli booni Teshie tingban ni. Mensah ni daa naagi tuma ŋɔ bɔhimbu, o daa nyɛla ŋun be Paa Joe sani ka bɛ tum yuma anii tinŋyuli booni Nungua ni, kamani kaapinta baŋda hali n ti naanyi yoogi o mamaŋ tuma duu yuuni 1998 o mamaŋ bɛhigu shee din yuli daa booni "Hello Design Coffin Works" Teshie tingban ni. Mensah nyɛla ŋun kpe tuma wuligibu yaɣa ni pam Europe tingban ni n ti pahi European shɛbi siniinim tuma kamani "Sépulture sur mesure" din daa yina Philippe Lespinasse nim kpandɔɣi ni la na, o kum daadaka parisi ŋɔ shɛŋa nyɛla din be bɛ ni boli luɣishɛli ni British Museum din be London la ni, ni Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts din gba be Norwich and in .

Exhibitions

• 2009–2010: Living and Dying Gallery, British Museum, London.
• 2011: "Ghanaian Fantasy Coffin“, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich.

Documentaries

• 2009 "Ghana, Sépulture sur mesure"; Philippe Lespinasse, Grand Angle Productions, TV5Monde.
• 2011 "Hidden Treasure of Africa“; Griff Rhys Jones, BBC.

Bibliography

• Regula Tschumi. 2008. The Buried Treasures of the Ga. Coffin Art in Ghana. Benteli, pp. 122–123, 229.