100 km N of Accra lies a village Akyem Abompe. At the first sight it looks like other modern Ghanaian villages, where the network of streets reveals a great degree of planning and most inhabitants are dressed European way.
Though the village is rather exceptional. It is a unique center of bead production where practically each family is maintaining themselves through manufacture of beads.
The organization is rather flat. There are no leaders or chiefs mobilizing labor and distributing the goods. There are just producers and sales women. And yet the beautiful bead necklaces can reach as far as to the shops of New York .