Kwame Akoto-Bamfo
Kwame Akoto-Bamfo nyɛla bɛ ni dɔɣi so yuuni 1983 ni, ka o nyɛ ŋun mali nucheeni tuun bɔbigu baŋsim, ŋun chanŋ shikuru, ka bɛ mi o bin yɛra kpebu yɛla ni o ningbuna zuɣu tuma din yɛri din pun niŋ ka tiri suhi doo ka vari adalichi kanna gbansabila puuni. O dundɔŋni tuma nyɛla din jendiri taarihi nim din wuhiri ban daa bɛ niŋ katari ka bɛ zaŋba n lee daba ka bɛ mili ni Nkyinkim la , ka bɛ daa zaŋ li wuhisalo yuuni 2018 bɛ ni daa yan puhi chuɣu yuli booni National Memorial for Peace and Justice din daa yoogi Montgomery, Alabama ni la.[1] o binyɛra kpebu tuma ŋo shɛŋa nyɛla din jendi o zaŋ simiinti n mali zuɣu ŋmana din daa paai tuhili ni kɔbishee ka di ʒinti ninvuɣu shabi bɛ ni daa bgahi daba Accra din nyɛ Ghana tiŋzuɣu la . Di yuli n booni Faux-Reedom, ka bɛ daa zaŋli n wuhi salo yuuni unveiled 2017.[2]
Other activities
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]Public speaking
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]Kwame Akoto-Bamfo is regularly engaged in public speaking, research, and lectures largely due to his work as a sculptor, archiving and promoting African history and cultural heritage at Nkyinkyim Museum.
Film and television
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]- The Art of Healing (2022 documentary, in post-production, Executive Producer and Co-writer)
- Enslaved (2020 miniseries)
- The Lost Ancestors
Kpaŋmaŋ pina
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]- GUBA Influential artist of the Year 2019
- Kuenyehia Prize for Contemporary Artist (Inaugural Winner)
Kundivihira
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]- ↑ Miller, James H. (April 16, 2018). "Alabama memorial confronts America’s racist history". The Art Newspaper. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/us-memorial-confronts-america-s-racist-history.
- ↑ McCool, Alice (6 Mar 2017). "Accra in the spotlight: colonial questions as Ghana's capital celebrates its 60th". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/mar/06/accra-60-independence-birthday-parade-arts-colonisation-ghana.
External links
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]- Tɛmplet:Official
- Biography
- Building Restorative Justice Across the African Diaspora
- Bearing witness to slavery: A sculpture’s trans-Atlantic passage from Ghana to Alabama - The Boston Globe Archived 2018-06-03 at the Wayback Machine
- Kwame Akoto-Bamfo - STOA169
- Artist - Blank Slate Monument
- This traveling sculpture challenges the story Confederate statues tell (nbcnews.com)
- EJI Releases Video on Sculpture About Enslavement
- People&Places: A look into one of Ghana's biggest museums making waves internationally - Nkyinkyim (ghanaweb.com) Archived 2022-11-13 at the Wayback Machine
- Ancestor Project Gh – Ancestor Project Gh Archived 2023-03-21 at the Wayback Machine
- Exploration of the influences that shapes the art and activism.
- David J. Maloney's part one of an interview with Kwame Koto-Bamfo on his influences in representational art dealing with restorative justice and the African diaspora
- Part 2 of the interview with David J. Maloney, discussing the spiritual and contextual aspects of the Nkyinkyim Installation in Montgomery Alabama, and the touring installation of The Blank Slate Monument.
Academic talks/lectures
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]- Mondays at Beinecke: Building Restorative Justice Across the African Diaspora with Kwame Akoto-Bamfo | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library (yale.edu)
- The Year of Return & Beyond: Reclaiming African History and Ancestry through the Nkyinkyim Installation | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library (yale.edu)
- KABE explains Ancestor Project at University of Ghana, Legon - YouTube