BBC: GHANA'S KOJO MARFO SELL-OUT SHOW

Andy Jones, July 13, 2021

Kojo Marfo is a butcher-turned-artist determined to tell the world about the importance of cows.

 

"The cow builds civilisations," says Marfo. "In Ghana we use them to plough the land and if you have two to three animals, you can get a beautiful woman to marry you. In parts of India they are treated as Gods."

 

His appreciation began in childhood in rural Ghana, where he was raised by his mother and grandma, and it grew after moving to New York for work where he fell into a short-term career as a butcher.

 

"I was actually hopeless. I knew so little about meat, I'd cheat," says the 41-year-old.

 

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