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Kwabena Danso, the brain behind Ghana’s bamboo made bicycles

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  • obi 8 years ago

    how much

  • DI ASEM PA. 8 years ago

    I want to ask. Is the tires, the seat, stirring, the paddle and the chain made in Ghana? Why are we deceiving ourselves? Over 50 years in independent we can't make things in our own way. Bro. Danso, you did your best. But, s ...
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  • OSEI 8 years ago

    IT IS VERY GOOD INITIATIVE BUT IS IT SAFE TO RIDE A BAMBOO BIKE. THE GOVT SHOULD ENCOURAGE HIM TO USE METAL FOR SAFETY. HE HAS DONE WELL THOUGH. THIS IS NO MEANS TO PUT HIM DOWN. HE HAS DONE WELL.

  • LARYEAH 8 years ago

    STUPIDITY IT BEST! IT WOULD HAVE BEEN TO USE CLAY TO PRODUCE A CAR.

  • Saint Ghfuo: MEDIOCRITY STINKS! 8 years ago

    I WANT TO BUY A BAMBOO BIKE

  • Ada Boy 8 years ago

    This would sit well as a museum piece somewhere or a propaganda piece for chairman Mao but not as an alternative transport in 21st century.We have grown or should grow past this.We continue to behave and act like endangered s ...
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  • Kwetey Ezekiel Narh 8 years ago

    thanks Danso

    u prove that u can make extraordinary things from ordinary things
    kudos may God help and provide u with wisdom

    bravo ooo

  • Koda Moro 8 years ago

    This really puts Ghana back Ten thousand years. Are we moving forward or back wards. No wonder he graduated from Kwame Nkrumah university and not MIT, where positive ideas comes from

  • Akua 8 years ago

    Koda Moro, what have u also invented so far? We would be glad to know.

  • CITIZEN ONE 8 years ago

    ...majority of our citizens love to glorify dumb stuff, and call it Ghanaian culture. Please warning, whenever somebody does something stupid, they should just give it their village title and culture, leave me out of it. I ca ...
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  • Ago 8 years ago

    yes we love to glorify mediocre things

  • Nsia 8 years ago

    The mayor of London goes to work everyday on his bicycle. The leader of the main opposition party in the UK does the same. Bear mind, UK is the 5th largest economy in the world. In third world Ghana, the mayor of Accra travel ...
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  • Apraku 8 years ago

    The most intelligent comment so far Bravo

  • Apraku 8 years ago

    Bambooo bikes cost as much as 2,700 euros in Europe, a whole lot of dimwits
    in Ghana.

  • Lula 8 years ago

    Don't ask stupid question . Made in Ghana bici , basta. Fool

  • Edy 8 years ago

    Damn ashanti man again after kantaka cars now we make bicycle ooh lord have really blesed us. This is not a tribal message but i hope one day ghana can come together and make black race great again

  • CITIZEN ONE 8 years ago

    ...only an Ashanti will do that. Katanka or whatever, that shitty piece of crap vehicle, copied from scratch to finish is no achievement. And this piece of simple artifact is no engineering feat This is stuff you sell in mini ...
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  • Edy 8 years ago

    Foolish man why dont you build something so that we can talk about for you information kantaka is growing and this one was also on cnn that why they is no black country that is developed because we hate our own kind keep hati ...
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  • Jake 8 years ago

    You have shown the way to make things possible for many. For this reason I say thank you so much.

  • Sir innovation 8 years ago

    there are people who does not know anything at all and yet they pretend they know. Mr. Kwabena is a man of creativity and a people's person. It is only the stupid nonentities that would not appreciate what this man is doing t ...
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  • atia 8 years ago

    we are moving forward!! lol

  • kojo 8 years ago

    bamboo bicycles. could. be nice, but are they stronger than the existing metal ones or are just sauvnirs.
    My white boss bought that small cho lorry to France. When asked, this was his explanation. I just like the mould.and t ...
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  • Yaa 8 years ago

    Well done.

  • kofi adu 8 years ago

    yonso bicycle indeed.if you know what life is worth then you wont ride a bamboo.what is the crash test rate?die before you ride to death.