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John Akomfrah RA is having a moment. Earlier this year he was knighted in recognition of his contribution to the arts, and soon after it was announced that he will represent Great Britain at the...
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Nov 9, 2018 · Artist John Akomfrah reflects on what Remembrance means to him.See his work Mimesis: African Soldier at IWM London https://www.iwm.org.uk/events/mimesis-afri...
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A conversation with celebrated artist/film-maker John Akomfrah. The release of The Unfinished Conversation marks 30 years since John Akomfrah established his...
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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.
Jan 4, 2024 · The British-Ghanaian artist John Akomfrah has been pushing the boundaries of film for more than four decades. Having started out with experimental documentaries such as Handsworth Songs (1986 ...
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.
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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.
