Ebony bookends, 'African Antelopes'
Sleek antelopes graze in the African savannah, their graceful elegance captured in ebony wood. Kwaku Ofosuhene Apenteng creates a beautiful pair of bookends, carved by hand and finished with mansion polish. The books bear the Gye Nyame Adinkra symbol. Ghanaian Adinkra symbols communicate popular wisdom to the people. With its rotating movements, Gye Nyame is understood as "I fear none except God.
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