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Apr 17, 2024 · Akomfrah was born in Accra, Ghana in 1957 to parents who were involved with anti-colonial activism. He moved to west London aged eight when his mother’s life was endangered by the 1966 Ghanaian coup and his father “died in the upheaval.”
Oct 24, 2023 · Photography from Alaska, French Polynesia and Greenland is juxtaposed with archival images of industry, political movements and even scenes of life and death, with the sounds of burbling brooks...
Sep 9, 2021 · Pictures and details of John Akomfrah: FIVE MURMURATIONS at Lisson Gallery, New York, September 9 – October 16, 2021 – Contemporary art with installation views.
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...
Five Murmurations is London-based, Ghanaian-born artist John Akomfrah’s response to the global pandemic, murder of George Floyd, and worldwide protests in support of Black Lives Matter. It is a visual essay of our current times.
Akomfrah began this year with twin honours: a knighthood and selection as the UK’s representative artist at the next Venice Biennale. Both plaudits underscored his achievements in moving image over the last four decades, since cofounding the Black Audio Film Collective in 1982 and directing the landmark Handsworth Songs (1986), a searing ...
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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...
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