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Nov 9, 2023 · The artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah has vivid memories of the coup that ousted Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana in 1966, when he was eight. His pan-Africanist father was an Nkrumah loyalist who “died...
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Jul 10, 2024 · Out of fear for their lives, Akomfrah’s mother took the family and emigrated. After a brief stint in the US, they wound up in London. “Diasporas are created as these violent eruptions of the conceptual,” he told the curator Ekow Eshun in 2016. “I’m only in the UK because my old man took a bullet.”.
Sir John Akomfrah CBE RA (born 4 May 1957 [1]) is a Ghanaian-born British artist, writer, film director, screenwriter, theorist and curator of Ghanaian descent, whose "commitment to a radicalism both of politics and of cinematic form finds expression in all his films".
Nov 6, 2023 · For more than four decades, John Akomfrah has sought to tell myriad tales of migration and belonging. Akomfrah left Ghana for the UK as a young child after the country’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, was overthrown in the 1966 coup, which put his activist mother’s life in danger.
Sep 1, 2021 · Sept. 1, 2021. LONDON — Shortly before the artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah left Ghana for Britain after a 1966 coup, the nine-year-old-boy had a final encounter with his grandfather, the...
Nov 7, 2020 · “The British brought people over from Africa and the Caribbean to work. Then my generation got born. An unintended consequence, I suppose,” says artist and film-maker John Akomfrah.
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Jan 4, 2024 · The Venice Biennale-bound artist discusses his latest video work exploring the so-called Columbian exchange and tells us why his films owe a debt to cinema but are “rendered slightly strange ...
