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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".
John Akomfrah is a widely respected artist and filmmaker, whose works are characterised by their investigations into memory, postcolonialism, temporality and aesthetics and often explores the experiences of migrant diasporas globally.
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...
Apr 16, 2024 · Based in London since childhood, Akomfrah first gained recognition making experimental documentary films as part of the influential Black Audio Film Collective, which he co-founded in 1982; and...
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.
Sep 21, 2018 · Akomfrah had originally planned to focus only on soldiers and porters from Africa (hence the title Mimesis: African Soldier). But as he continued his research, he decided to include black soldiers from the US, Indian troops and men who came from colonized territories in the Far East as well.
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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.
