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Jan 10, 2025 | 
artreview.com | Anakwa Dwamena
How are Brazilian artists with African heritage using a new visual vocabulary to make space for a more fecund relationship with the continent? In 2022, Rio de Janeiro’s Museum of Art put out a call for works on and about important Black figures in Brazil for an iteration of the exhibition Enciclopédia Negra (Black Encyclopaedia). The São Paulo-based artist Larissa De Souza responded.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
artreview.com | Anakwa Dwamena
What is the real scandal surrounding Adjaye’s work in Ghana, asks Anakwa Dwamena, as he explores its afterlives in AccraThe skyline of downtown Accra is studded with eccentric buildings, and each tells a piece of Ghana’s complicated history. The National Theatre, opened in 1992, with its Ark-like top-structure pinned to a rectangular base, is testament to an era when culture was an arena for national identity-making and architecture was the equivalent of placing meringues on pies.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
artreview.com | Anakwa Dwamena
What is the real scandal surrounding Adjaye’s work in Ghana, asks Anakwa Dwamena, as he explores its afterlives in AccraThe skyline of downtown Accra is studded with eccentric buildings, and each tells a piece of Ghana’s complicated history. The National Theatre, opened in 1992, with its Ark-like top-structure pinned to a rectangular base, is testament to an era when culture was an arena for national identity-making and architecture was the equivalent of placing meringues on pies.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
africasacountry.com | Anakwa Dwamena |Jean Allman |Benjamin Talton |Bianca Murillo
Interview by Anakwa Dwamena One of the most important dates for the Ghanaian left is February 24, 1966, the day the country’s first president Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown. At this year’s commemoration, the Socialist Movement of Ghana organized an event around the reissuing of a book, The Great Deception. Published by the Socialist Forum of Ghana, it documents the role of the CIA in the overthrow of Ghana’s first president.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
africasacountry.com | Anakwa Dwamena |Jean Allman |Benjamin Talton |Bianca Murillo
Interview by Anakwa Dwamena One of the most important dates for the Ghanaian left is February 24, 1966, the day the country’s first president Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown. At this year’s commemoration, the Socialist Movement of Ghana organized an event around the reissuing of a book, The Great Deception. Published by the Socialist Forum of Ghana, it documents the role of the CIA in the overthrow of Ghana’s first president.
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Feb 15, 2024 | 
aperture.org | Anakwa Dwamena
One afternoon last March, while he was walking along Lumley Beach in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Abdul Hamid Kanu Jr. decided to pray. The photographer set his equipment down, and as he reached for water to start his ablution, he was approached by three boys selling water in plastic sachets. Could they join him in prayer? Yes, Kanu replied. But first, with his camera, he immortalized a moment of the boys squatting by the unending ocean, vigorously wiping their faces with water.
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Oct 11, 2023 | 
aperture.org | Anakwa Dwamena
“Small Rally, Accra.” 1964. Townspeople, watching and listening with rapt attention, sit in a semicircle, oriented toward a speaker just outside the frame. It’s a mixed group: uniformed high-school girls in sleeveless white dresses, men in traditional woven cotton cloth worn toga style, others in long sleeves and slacks with a cigarette clasped between their lips. Children of all ages sit, squat, and crouch on the swept-dust floor. A juvenile rebel stares at the photographer—Paul Strand.
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Oct 5, 2023 | 
aljazeera.com | Anakwa Dwamena
Accra, Ghana – Until last year, “Kofi Brokeman”, a streetside snack of roasted plantains and peanuts, was an everyday treat for many of Ghana’s 33 million people. Then prices began rising, almost doubling in some places to 5 Ghanaian cedis ($0.43 cents) per slice. So some locals jokingly rechristened it “Kofi Richman”. But the situation is no laughing matter for Lovelace Ayittey, 59, who sells the snack on Lagos Avenue, a stretch in the wealthy East Legon enclave of Accra.
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Aug 31, 2023 | 
dissentmagazine.org | Wilfred Chan |Anakwa Dwamena |Alan A. Aja |Daniel Bustillo
Yearning for Freedom In Ming Smith’s photo of Amina and Amiri Baraka, we can see the interdependence of Black art and political struggle. ▪ Spring 2023 They could be any couple. The man appears to be talking or resting. The woman wears a furrowed brow, her face illuminated and surrounded by shadow. The title gives them away: they are Amina and Amiri Baraka, the celebrated poets and political activists, captured on film by Ming Smith.
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Aug 2, 2023 | 
nytimes.com | Anakwa Dwamena
What to Read Find Your Next Book March Releases Critics' Reviews Editors' Choice 100 Notable Books What to Read Find Your Next Book March Releases Critics' Reviews Editors' Choice 100 Notable Books In "Anansi's Gold," Yepoka Yeebo delves into the origins of a venerable scam - and the man who got away with it for decades. When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission.
