Is it catching on? Environmentally, ecologically sound and sustainable housing with solar power and so on?
Is it catching on? That is a good question. Ive actually been working at this since 1987. I first started with doing a self-build house, so that houses were affordable. I supplied the materials and the technical expertise and you built your house yourself. Of course, I have to make money myself and I realised that was going to be very difficult for me. The Ministry of Works and Housing was very interested in my methods, but they couldn’t pay me. I also found that building with earth and stone began to be linked with “low-cost”, because I professed to be able to build a house with less than 30 thousand dollars. And I believe that if you want to transform any attitudes in the bourgeois, materialistic society that Ghana is becoming, you actually have to start from the top. You have to go to rich people and get rich people to buy into it. And, if you do, then poorer people will also aspire to it. So, I came back again in 1995 and I decided to build expensive, luxury, ecological houses whic
