Lashing raffia sticks to a roof pole on a wattle-and-daub structure

Yaw Sayana uses bark fibre to lash and tie raffia stick slats to the wood poles of a pitched roof on a wattle-and-daub structure built on the grounds of the Banda Cultural Centre. He uses the fibre to lash raffia slats placed perpendicularly on top of the roof poles to a single roof pole, working his way downward from the central joist toward the lower joist. As he approaches the end of a strip of fibre, he ties another piece to its end before continuing to wrap the fibre around the slats and pole. Noah Donkor stands on the ceiling below the roof lattice while Kwame Lupon Kumah and Yaw Sayana sit on the lattice as they work. The yellow walls and metal roof of the Cultural Centre are visible in the background. Banda-Ahenkro, Banda District, Ghana.