The Kintampo Pottery and Ceramics Centre is a craft training and production centre in Kintampo, in the Bono East Region of Ghana (the town sits right on the border with the Savannah Region, and was formerly part of the old Brong-Ahafo Region before the 2019 regional split). It is one of the country's notable centres for teaching and practising pottery and ceramics, and it is closely associated with the Kintampo area's long tradition of clay work. Kintampo itself is famous in Ghanaian archaeology for the **Kintampo Culture** — a Neolithic/Stone Age culture dated to roughly 3,600–3,000 years ago, named after the town because of the rich archaeological finds there. Those excavations turned up clay figurines, pottery and grinding stones, which is part of why the area is regarded as one of the cradles of early ceramic tradition in Ghana. The modern centre builds on that heritage, training students and artisans in hand-building, wheel-throwing, glazing and kiln firing, and producing utilitarian and decorative ware — pots, bowls, tiles, vases and ornamental pieces. Craft centres of this type in Ghana typically serve a dual purpose: they are vocational training institutions (often attached to or modelled on the technical/vocational education system, and sometimes linked to the former National Vocational Training Institute or the Ghana Education Service's technical schools) and they are small-scale production units that supply local markets, hotels, schools and the growing market for Ghanaian handicraft and home décor. Pottery is also a deeply gendered craft in many Ghanaian traditions — in parts of the north and in Akan areas, women have historically dominated the making of domestic earthenware, while men have often handled the digging of clay and the firing. If you are trying to reach the centre, the practical route is through Kintampo town itself, off the main Kumasi–Tamale highway (Kintampo is a major junction town roughly midway between Kumasi and Tamale), and enquiries usually go through the local assembly — the Kintampo Municipal Assembly — or the regional office of the relevant technical/vocational education body. One honest note: I don't have a verified, up-to-date record of the centre's current management, exact programmes, fees or opening status as of 2026 — those details change and I won't invent them. If you want, I can search deeper for the current contact, courses and leadership, or point you to the Kintampo Municipal Assembly and the Bono East Regional Coordinating Council for confirmation. As the Akan say, *"Se wo were fi na wosan kofa a, yenkyi"* — there is nothing wrong with going back to fetch what you forgot; and going back to clay, Ghana's oldest craft, is going back to the very beginning of our making.