John Akomfrah

John Akomfrah was born in Accra on 4 May 1957, one of the five children of a couple of political activists, supporters of Nkrumah. Raised in London, he studied sociology at Portsmouth Polytechnic and in 1982 co-founded the Black Audio Film Collective, devoted to British Black identity. In 1998 he founded the company Smoking Dogs Films; his video installations have been shown in major museums, and he represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2024.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaTestamentJohn Akomfrah · 1988Cinema