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The Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art (SCCA Tamale) is an artist-run project space, exhibition and research hub, cultural repository and artists’ residency founded by Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama, and run by director Selom Kudjie. Located in Tamale, the space is dedicated to cultural practices and the expansion of the contemporary art scene in Ghana. Its sister institutions, Red Clay, the studio of Ibrahim Mahama as well as Nkrumah Voli-ni, an extension of SCCA Tamale and Red Clay, are also participating in the project.

A special thank you to Ibrahim Mahama, Selom Kudjie (artist and director of the institutions), Ben Okantey (artist and project coordinator for the grant), Gideon Asmah (photographer and documentation photographer for the grant), and Manuela Nebuloni (researcher at Politecnico di Milano).

Advisory panel for selection of projects

Ahmad Addo, Professor, Department of Agriculture and Biosystems
Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).

Laura Bonzanigo, Senior Water Resource Management Specialist, World Bank Accra.

Sessen Daniel Iohannes, PhD student, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL),
Coordinator of the American Society of Plant Biologists African Researchers Network (ASPB-ARN).

Matteo Pelucchi, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI).

Maria Cristina Rulli, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI).

Jasmeer Virdee, Trade Strategy Development Officer, International Trade Center (ITC).

Selected Research Projects

-RECLAMATION OF LATERITE MINED DEGRADED SOILS

Team: Eleanor Dunee & Bernard N. Baatuuwie (PhD)

-VALORISATION OF SHEA WASTE FOR AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY

Team: Abdul-Mumeen Iddrisu (PhD), Abudu Ballu Duwiejuah (PhD) and Abubakari Zarouk Imoro (PhD)

-HYDROSPATIAL ASSESSMENT OF SMALL RESERVOIRS UNDER THE
ONE-VILLAGE-ONE-DAM INITIATIVE IN THE NORTHERN REGION OF GHANA

Team: Prosper Kpiebaya