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Sir John Akomfrah CBE RA (born 4 May 1957) 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".
Jul 10, 2024 · Amid rising turmoil in Ghana in the mid 1960s—which would culminate in Nkrumah’s ousting by military coup in 1966—Akomfrah’s father was shot and killed. 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.
Mar 20, 2012 · Akomfrah was born in Accra, the capital of Ghana, in 1957. His activist parents fled the West African country when he was just nine, shortly after political unrest meant their lives were...
Oct 24, 2023 · Photography by Jack Hems. Our daily immersion in a bombardment of images, in repeated patterns, at a fraught moment in contemporary history, makes the multichannel work of the artist John...
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...
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John Akomfrah. Artist - Black Audio Film Collective cofounder representing the UK in the next Venice Biennale. 33 in 2023
