Bamboo does not get much respect in Ghana. Farmers see it as a nuisance to be cleared from their land. Construction workers use it to prop up buildings under construction. But Kwabena Danso thinks bamboo is worth more than that. His company,Booomers International, has been making bicycle frames out of bamboo, sending them from the Ashanti Region village of Appah to Germany, the Netherlands, Australia and elsewhere.Bamboo "has so many opportunities for the country. Like, as we want to go into other products, it’s a great opportunity for us revise and then get the people to know that there’s great advantage to bamboo," Danso says.Danso says he hires young men from nearby villages and puts them to work, sanding, gluing and binding his bamboo frames. His company churns out about 50 of the frames per month, using locally produced bamboo for the frames and cassava flour mixed with epoxy as one of the glues. Bicycle frames are commonly made out of carbon fiber, steel or aluminum. Besides being a successful social enterprise, Danso says Booomers also serves as a source of livelihood for young men like foreman Abdul Razak. Without this job, Razak says he would still be living at home with his parents."If there is this company it is not there, I don’t know where I’d be by now," Razak says.Danso has sold only a few of his frames within Ghana. One of his customers, Walter Kudzodzi,purchased a bike earlier this year. Kudzodzi says his solid-wood frame rarely escapes notice when he goes forrides around his neighborhood."For example, on Saturday, I rode about five kilometers around my neighborhood and everywhere I went, people were just looking at me," Kudzodzi says. "Once and a while you hear the exclamation, ‘Hey, it’s made out of bamboo, hey, that’s the bamboo bicycle,’ ... and anytime I stopped to take a breather, people come close to me and say, ‘Wow, we heard about this, but this is the first time we’ve seen it. Is it functional? Does it work?' Isay yeah, try it," Kudzodzi says. With his shop overwhelmed with orders, Danso says Booomers is poisedfor expansion. He says he hopes to get more of his frames on the streets, not just the roads of foreign countries, but on those in Ghana as well.
Source:
http://m.voanews.com/a/ghana-bamboo-bikes-gain-worldwide-attention/2491989.html

naija self de make cars
bt Ghana too try shhha


but if termite don eat d bamboo and e go break oneday while riding? m afraid that will turn a heavenly ride, yu ride to heaven bthat

I am so happy for Ghana...

This is creativity...

And this product will soon turn celebrity... an icon... a brand..

Kudos Ghana!

good work

Wow. Ghana must stay,at least for this. Dey shldnt go now

the person who wrote that made in ghana has bad handwriting.

Very good innovation. We need more of this sort of thing in Africa.

Ok

(Singing) sugarcane no be bamboo...

Hey fellas, welcome me to politics section. And ask my girlfriend to forgive me for cheating, once and for all.

Gooci:
naija self de make cars
bt Ghana too try shhha


but if termite don eat d bamboo and e go break oneday while riding? m afraid that will turn a heavenly ride, yu ride to heaven bthat

When Ghana started making cars nigerians were killing themselves.

OXYGEN01:
When Ghana started making cars nigerians were killing themselves.

Name the first car Ghana made plus year. Back it up with proof, sources, links etc. Thanks.

RockMaxi:



Guy you are not alone. I actually came on board with a shoot at sight vigour.
I am returning back to base waiting for another day.
This invention is in a class of it's own. \/ || Thumbs .

Yeah men..

ROSSIKE:


Name the first car Ghana made plus year. Back it up with proof, sources, links etc. Thanks.

KANTANKA.