This blog post documents an insider’s perspective of the set-up for political cartoonist and artist Bright Ackwerh’s first North American art exhibition, Cartoons from Accra: Memoirs of Politics and Activism from Ghana and Beyond. My narrative is followed by a virtual gallery of Bright’s pieces from the exhibition, so everyone can share in this project.
Read MoreThe fifth instalment of a one-day conference in Accra, Ghana, co-organized by Girish Daswani (UofT) and Joseph Oduro-Frimpong (Ashesi University).
The panelist for this conversation are political cartoonists Bright Ackwerh and DAAVI.
Read MoreThis panel took place on March 12th, (10-11:30am EST / 3-4.30pm GMT). It featured David Amponsah, Tracy Mensah, Shobana Shankar, and Meera Venkatachalam, who spoke about the historical and contemporary, inter-racial and inter-cultural, relationships between Africans and Indians. This event was co-organised with Everyday Orientalism and chaired by Girish Daswani. Image by Bright Ackwerh @brightakwerh
Read MoreThis post responds to the Naija-Netflix film "Namaste-Wahala" (February, 2021). It provides a review but also a deeper history of the South Asian (Sindhi) presence in the Gold Coast and Ghana. It is both historical and personal as the author shares his family's (hist)story in Ghana.
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