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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.
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...
Sep 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 High Priest of the...
Jul 2, 2024 · This Dead Sea Scroll fragment (4QDeutj) and the third-century B.C.E. translation of the Hebrew Pentateuch into Greek (the Septuagint [LXX]), however, say the nations were divided according to the “sons of Elohim” (God). What did the original Bible text say? Photo: IAA.
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.
Aug 23, 2023 · So, from whence came Abraham's familiarity with the LORD? Did he learn of YHWH, up in Haran, from some clan of the Canaanites? Abraham was so confident in the YHWH religion that he responded immediately to the LORD's command. But where did this confidence (faith) come from?
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Mar 3, 2023 · How did a warrior-storm god become Yahweh, the god of world Abrahamic monotheism? By tracing the earliest history of Yahweh (“The One Exists”) to his origins in the area around Mt Seir to his immigration during the Bronze Age Collapse to the Judea Highlands around Shiloh, this episode explores the early history of the Israelite God.
