People & Places: The 98-year-old studio with rare photos of Nkrumah, Akufo-Addo's family, others

[@vernevanterpool2921]

Very influencial but educational at the same time. I am A diaspiran, and I do known that many slaves or captive were taken from there to the Caribbean island lands in the western hemisphere. But it's a very painful and hurting history that can not be forgotten ever. We are still feeling the pains today. We are looked at as foreigners by the colonial government systems of Ghana and other countries in Afrika. Keep doing a Good and bless work my little sister, it will pay off.

[@vernevanterpool2921]

The name used above is the slave master of my great grand father. My real true name is Verne Ebernie'to dos Lobitos of the Afrikan Portuguese Hebrew people, of old.

[@abotsia]

This interviewer is very good! She's intelligent, articulate and very thoughtful with her questions. She also gives the interviewee the space to speak and gently steers them back on course if they digress. Just beautiful.

[@elijahbelieve7866]

She is blessed

[@patrickp6676]

Every Ghanaian child should do a school trip to this studio.

[@sampsonpaintsil9839]

So true ,very educational

[@naadeibatelelyon8668]

My Mom worked here when she was 16yrs old in the 1950's for her uncle. Wow, Deo Gratias studio is till alive and going. It is a landmark in Ghana.

[@katetamakloe7461]

Hello, Naa Dei El Elyon, hope this finds you well, what is your mom's name?

[@abenanyankwabeaasante2956]

These are some of the things some of us want to watch and learn from and not those y3y3 "concerts parties " and fights some of our Ladies and Men are doing all over social media. Well done 👏 guys ❣❣❣

[@stonypee1755]

I like the mans [Kofi] fluency n command over the English language....who agrees?

[@tvs9978]

I disagree. His articulation is poor

[@doobia981]

I also disagree, his spoken English language skills are not the best. More room for improvement! Mrs. Kate and Mr. Awuley exhibited more fluency.

[@mercyfrost9869]

Infact Madam kate and her Family have done very well They have all the pictures of New and old Ghana.Wow.She deserves to be honoured in Ghana..Her Family is the history of Ghana.Because without them,,there is nothing to see at all.

[@ericankrah9614]

Very interesting place. It's both a studio and museum. I suggest the place should be insured against unforeseen happenings. Thanks

[@floramanieson7534]

Brilliant History being Shared Thank You, Ghana-Web For this Programme.

[@user-Love-n5v]

This studio must be made into a museum, great tourist attraction and a learning historical hub for our children! The pictures must be properly stored behind glass displays to protect them. Also can the curator have a brochure of each picture and its brief historical background stories in Ga, Twi and English. Those pictures must be protected at all costs and insured. It is our legacy for future generation of Ghanaians.

[@kwaananse6424]

This lady is a mark of quality journalism. Our numerous quack and incompetent journalist can learn a lot from her. See how she was able to draw the historian back into focus when he began to go astray.

[@phredseanadamadoh2922]

Powerful video, keep the good work up. Kudos

[@princessadu-bekoe3559]

This is an invaluable treasure. Any plans for a bigger studio to fully display all the pictures? This is a national treasure.

[@trzagor2769]

This is a priceless archive and it's about to grow in value as years goes by.

[@benjaminmawutor3672]

REALLY .. A PRICELESS ARCHIVE .

[@user-Love-n5v]

Absolutely, they must insure the pictures so that it becomes a valuable asset to the Photographer and the Art Council of Ghana,!

[@ebencobbs7036]

Ghana Web u guys are doing well with the information u bring out. Shout to you all

[@annangsowah9005]

This is very revealing. Well done Ghanaweb and Deo Gratias

[@AbrahamYayeh]

Absolutely fascinating episode. This is one place I would love to visit several times when I come to Accra/Ghana, God willing! The guests on this show are all lovely, brilliant and model citizens of their great country, Ghana. Ms Wonder, the young but matured, gorgeous and intelligent host of the show knows her craft very well, I am optimistic she will one day in the near future find herself at high places in her country. May the Almighty be always with her and her guests. Love from your Ethiopian brother in Denmark to all who participated in this show, and God bless! 🙏🌹🙏

[@fosukofi949]

Lmn

[@Zero-hl2zy]

Good episode very interesting and thanks to the family for preserving,them.👍🙏❤🇬🇭

[@jimpixter]

The Archives of DEO GRATIA STUDIO is a treasure/LEGACY for Ghana.

[@smileylady485]

Fascinating!

[@salleyibrahim6393]

Thanks for sharing sister

[@rocklandrockland2680]

The woman, madam Tamakloe, looks very dignified.

[@ishmaelacquah3480]

can we please put our heads together to help her.....this is real history..

[@buildvisions4africa939]

This has be publicized in Ghana. The studio hold part of the history of Ghana.

[@akuavibouka7410]

Good job proud to be a number 9 n Ghanaian🤩🙏

[@kwasiankomah8861]

YES , BEST PHOTO STUDIO OF OUR TIME. I TOOK MY FIRST PPP IN THE YEAR 1959 . STILL IT LOOKS VERY NICE.

[@GHANAFUNTUBE]

GHANA FUO....I dey greet you from ABROAD

[@donadoe4643]

Great, I enjoyed myself, cheers!!!

[@DestinyShaperswithSheilaNoye]

This is awesome!

[@msgoldndiamondsarefromafri8112]

Precious documentation of history

[@wilsonboakye8057]

Yes I met Mr. Vanderpuje in the early 60s. My brother was an apprentice of that studio.

[@katetamakloe7461]

This is very interesting, would you like to share your brother's name.

[@patrickagyei6547]

Oh this place is very important

[@abueghan1363]

History of Ghana bi sweet 🎂🎂

[@rttgefgfg2t44t67i6uh]

My grandpa is a very strict but a nice person I love him for that

[@christiansarfo6534]

Every Ghanaian should visit this place.

[@alimohammedali9972]

Yeah

[@TheBlackr0se]

Great presentation, young lady. Well Done. You are going places. Stay blessed.

[@koonimo4609]

GhanaWeb TV, you are doing very good work and I love most of the documentaries. However, it appears your Advert labels almost take about a third of the screen obscuring the main videos and pictures. Are you able to minimize the size of your Advert Caption labels to bring out more clearly the subject matter? That would be great. More grease to your elbow. I love the interviews very much. Keep it up.

[@elomk3167]

i pray these pictures have been digitised... so it can be online forever

[@edinsey]

Interviewing is not great but the place contains such great historical documents about Ghana

[@victoriahajar8622]

Wonderful. Will be visiting there Kofi you should mentioned this discovery to me.

[@naaniyenllcuisine4201]

great to know a bit more of my home town James town. very interesting.

[@abenaappiah-kerr5220]

Really informative - Medaase paa 🙏🏿🇬🇭

[@TheBlackr0se]

Amazing!!!

[@TheBlackr0se]

Please let’s hear about the history sooner. Amazing. Thank you Sir

[@charityadu9879]

only ghanaweb can do this. please don't get into politics, even though i support NPP .but please be nuetral .i really love this photo studio documentary. cant get enough. keep doing things like this, i love it

[@maa-t4644]

It's interesting that I come from this area but I've never entered this studio before.... I always pass by it and I never even knew what goes on in there.

[@jimpixter]

That’s always the case “you never know what you have, until you loose it”; unfortunately we do not have or show proper interest in Art. And the Studio did not attract the Youth as it should. If there was Popular Music blasting out every day, Esther and her friends would have been spending time inside!

[@stephenpenuku2768]

A very brilliant historical pictures of our older leaders .thumps up for this good work but the man sharing the stories is talking tooo fast for many of people to follow-up. Pls take your time to show such a wonderful works of the Vanderpours

[@dianaeffah6455]

Beautiful and Hamble woman

[@jonaaddy8336]

place to visit

[@sonman4621]

The man explaining the pictures is running too fast with his explanation, he does not allow the camera person to capture the pictures to be seen

[@jimpixter]

He is too excited about the whole project that is why goes so fast; I felt the same right from the beginning. I shall find a way to help him slow down a bit.

[@jaytettehquarshie1522]

The first narrator was excellent

[@TheBlackr0se]

Please contact the Ministry of Education to Advertise this to the Secondary Schools and Universities to add this to their Educational Programme to educate the nation. Please do. Africa needs this. We need to learn about the need for establishing a LEGACY as your Grandfather, Father and you Mrs Tamaklo (I hope I spelt your name right) have done. Thank you, I hope your dad enjoy his resting years. Blessings only. EA

[@jaytettehquarshie1522]

Please use a very good score or music that is mote catchy like Yaa Amponsah nd the camera man should zoom in more next time

[@AlkebulanJahmiah]

Wow this is my long lost cousins Kate James and Vivian

[@herculesskinny2030]

Everyone talks about Nkrumah, Nkrumah, Nkrumah. No one talks about his vice. Quiz, Quiz. Who was Kwame Nkrumah's vice?

[@djkojo17]

Next trip, please strom over to Gramophone Libray at GBC

[@yvonneayitik5753]

This information is really priceless but can you interview the owner of the studio himself since he is still alive for authentic information

[@daughterofzionhebrewisrael3189]

Miss Presenter please learn how to use the word PLEASE. Thank you.

[@dorkuchotanihu9589]

Why we dont have all this in the history books Expercialy the GAADAMGBE history what this man is saying a lot of dosen't anything about what he is saying JAMES TOWN. I will be happy if he and other GAADAMGBE historians will come together to write the history of the GAADAMGBE PEOPLE. This will go all the to other regions also to write their history. Every region we have in GHANA have got HISTORIAN why they dont come together rewrite our history. And all th his historians are getting older ,do we sit down and let th them go with this reach HISTORY we have in GHANA. I have this same program where the chief of.ANGLOGA when he also give full details about the people of EWE , THE VOLTA REGION. THANKS FROM BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS

[@kofitiger1921]

😏😏Akuffo addo father is our problem today😏😏

[@maa-t4644]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@rttgefgfg2t44t67i6uh]

My dad is the first born to

[@abueghan1363]

Aah who are fools disliking this video 📷📷

[@erickwakye8712]

Hmmmm say it again oooooo

[@kwakubotantv8136]

Kwaku BOTAN was here

[@patienceboafo1998]

My dear presenter can you please do a bit of research before you interview someone. Your style of questioning seems dull and not forthcoming. However, a very lovely studio with great photos.

[@UncleMo77]

The beauty queen with Kwame Nkrumah was Miss Ghana 1958, Madam Janet Boateng, not Monica Amekoefia, the 1957 beauty queen.

[@bernardansah9317]

Even the pictures also millions of dollars

[@dolcemariah4123]

Great job Mr Vandapue!! EƲEGBE VI WO DE, MI LE AFI YA HAA?!!!! NUMERO 9 E NUMERO UNOOOOOO!!! 💓 😘 😘 👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾 "Fleshly fatched from the forest of nkruful" was he a snail 🐌??? come onn, you are good but your choice of words is wrong. Girl your camera guy flop paa. He aren't capturing the fotos the guy talks about.

[@sonman4621]

The man explaining the pictures is going too too fast

[@ffk9660]

I wouldn't want to sound disrespectful but such events must have a matured journalist to iron out better questions. Very interesting though.

[@jimpixter]

You are right, but I don't want to be offensive either. I am Exhibiting similar work in London now, and I know what I am talking about! It is Ghana's History. We need to know what The Daily Graphic and the Times newspapers have in their archives, too!

[@jimpixter]

Times Newspapers

[@ffk9660]

@@jimpixter I agree

[@dolcemariah4123]

I agree with you 💯 %. Kind of like kids programme

[@ffk9660]

@@dolcemariah4123 Yeah! Being young is not necessarily the "blast".

[@osikani]

This lady(hostess) is not up to the task. She's asking non-fa questions nkoaaaa. The camera guy is even worse. He is all over the place when he should be following the narration by the gentleman/guide. I bore self.

[@bernardansah9317]

This cameras can now be sold 5million dollars for one wowwwww

[@aboaboyahciciniko7132]

✔✔✔✔

[@essirenhier7489]

So it wasn’t Gold Coast but the true name was GOGOS known as Ghana today ! Mr Teteh thank you for that scoop. Gogos never crossed my mind. Yea British truly tricked people.

[@frankgambrah7689]

What was his motivation. So you said. I am sure you the reporter believes it was just waste of time because you don’t have any idea what museum is about.

[@Agboka]

Change the damn name of James town. There's nothing glorious about the oppressive past of this town. Keep the history but change the name as the man James - a brother to an oppressive so-called king was an evil man.

[@gibson2675]

So says the looney left African American

[@tvs9978]

The name is part and parcel of the town's history. Can't erase history just because it makes you uncomfortable. Deal with it

[@Agboka]

@@gibson2675 This is a true Ghanaian. Why didn't you keep Gold Coast, Upper Volta, Rhodesia German Tanganyika? See, those who had changed those names to what we know of them today were brave men and we're not "cowards" who would like to please their oppressors simply because they could not help themselves in the poverty they had found themselves in and therefore wait on their European overlords for a "broniwawu" underwear. Men take action. No wonder you call your royal thrones "stools" which sound in English as "shit" even though it might be written slightly different. The knew what he meant when he taught you how your thrones should be called and you bought it without reasoning. The English man also has kings but they sit on thrones as God sits in heaven on a throne, but your Nii mei, Togbiwo and Nananum sit on "shit"? James Town has a bad energy because the builder had a bad energy and that's the place is in that predicament. You nuts even see nothing wrong calling slave dungeons as Castle until our brothers and sisters from the diaspora brought your attention to it that there's nothing "castle" about such demonic structures. Hello?

[@gibson2675]

@@Agboka Concentrate your mind on how you going to create jobs and prosperity. Cultural marxism is for the rich.

[@essirenhier7489]

Did Mrs Tamakloe saying that late Kwame N’kruma sent Mrs Tamakloe’s father to abroad to learn photography ? Whoa ! I thought the man was visionary back then but not at all. Anyway ! Asia or Chinese wouldn’t ever do that. What a waste of time ? Well today 21 st century , they give scholarships to study philosophy abroad. So no black as lawyer to représente Akuffo Addo and his father those days but a white British lawyer. They sold Ghana already as they sold their brothers and sisters to them. Pffff !

[@enlmills]

Presenter you are so unprofessional. You did not do your research before embarking on this beautiful journey.

[@kofiowusu5723]

It OK please let sleeping dogs lie.she was given the opportunity and she did her best. The important thing is the Beautiful pictures and Stories Behind it