The socio-economic impact of weaving in Ghana a case study of Kasena-Nankana Municipal of Upper East Region

Abstract

This study's goal is to evaluate and investigate the socioeconomic effects of weaving in Ghana, using the Upper East Region's Kasena-Nankana Municipality as a case study. It is aimed at finding how fugu weaving is developed as a vocation in the Kasena-Nanka Municipality, the socio-cultural and economic significance to the community and its people. The performance and appraisal of work production at the indigenous weaving centers in the Upper East Region were investigated using a descriptive survey research. The study found that fugu fabric weaving has provided employment for thousands of individuals. These handwoven products not only benefit the environment, but they also strengthen the local community because the women in the village produce handicrafts that they market to our visitors in order to make money. Rising weaving thread prices, a decline in business during the rainy seasons, and low-quality weaving thread, depending on the brand of threads, are some of the difficulties the indigenous weaving community in the Kasena-Nankana Municipality of Upper East Region faces. In order to determine how the fugu cloth weaving and smock business in Kasena-Nankana Municipality of Upper East Region might improve the socioeconomic life of its residents. It was discovered that educating weavers and coming up with new ways to use fugu fabrics into different works of art are the most efficient ways to have a beneficial impact on the lives of the people.