Bringing Bright Ackwerh’s “Cartoons from Accra” to Life: Correspondence of an amateur curator

Bringing Bright Ackwerh’s “Cartoons from Accra” to Life: Correspondence of an amateur curator

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.

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Art and Feminist Activism (Akosua Hanson and Ama Asantewa Diaka)

Art and Feminist Activism (Akosua Hanson and Ama Asantewa Diaka)

The fourth instalment of a one-day conference in Accra, Ghana, co-organized by Girish Daswani (UofT) and Joseph Oduro-Frimpong (Ashesi University).

The panelists for this conversation are radio host and gender activist Akosua Hanson and spoken word artist Ama Asantewa Diaka.

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