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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".
Akomfrah was a founding member of the influential Black Audio Film Collective, which started in London in 1982 alongside the artists David Lawson and Lina Gopaul, who he still collaborates with today.
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...
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.
They made a big mistake. Akomfrah ultimately forged his career by weaving stories through dense, lyrical mosaics of archive and new footage, often on multi-screen installations.
The filmmaker John Akomfrah, son of exiled Ghanaian radicals, was their charismatic spokesman, but each had their own interests—anti-colonial politics, sociology, psychoanalysis, post-punk music. What united them was a desire to make work rooted in British, rather than black American, aesthetics.
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Jul 10, 2024 · Akomfrah was born in 1957 in Accra, Ghana, almost exactly two months to the day after it became the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to gain independence from a colonial power.
