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Ghana's hand-painted movie posters find homes abroad

Ghanaian popular culture anthropologist Joseph Oduro-Frimpong 45, displays his private collection of hand-painted movie posters. [Reuters]

With a flick of his brush, Ghanaian painter Daniel Anum Jasper armed actor Paul Newman with a pair of revolvers. Unfinished paintings of a bell-bottomed John Travolta and nunchuck-spinning Bruce Lee adorned the walls of his crammed Accra studio.

Jasper, a veteran movie poster designer, was finishing up one of the 1969 classic "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", commissioned by a foreign collector who had reached out over Instagram.

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