John Akomfrah Books
Ghana freedom
By Felicia Abban, Selasi Awusi Sosu, John Akomfrah, El Anatsui, Ibrahim Mahama, Lynette Yiadom Boakye
"Titled Ghana Freedom, after the song composed by E.T. Mensah on the eve of the birth of the new nation in 1957, the pavilion curated by Nana Oforiatta Ayim examines the legacies and trajectories o...
Read MoreViolence
By George Yancy, Adrian Parr, Christopher Alden, Henry A. Giroux, Brad Evans, Michael J. Shapiro, Zygmunt Bauman, Cary Wolfe, Jake Chapman, Allen Feldman, Jack Halberstram, Richard J. Bernstein, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Simon Critchley, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Neo Muyanga, Oliver Stone, John Akomfrah, Tom McCarthy, Natasha Lennard, Alfredo Jaar, Gottfried Helnwein, David Theo Goldberg, Erin Manning, Mickey Mod, Elaine Scarry, Brian Massumi, Bracha L. Ettinger, Simona Forti, Moira Weigel
Read MoreMigrations
By Lizzie Carey Thomas, John Akomfrah
For the past 500 years Britain, and British art, have been shaped by successive waves of migration. Elements thought of as most typically British - landscape painting, for instance - were introduce...
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