VOICES: GHANA'S ARTISTS IN THEIR OWN WORDS

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We have teamed up with Accra-based MANJU JOURNAL for a new artistic anthology - a book that celebrates Ghanaian visual artists, their creative excellence and the country’s arts community.

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Africa’s status in the contemporary art world cannot be ignored and the new vanguard of Ghanaian visual artists are emblematic of this influential cultural movement. Increasingly confident of their place in the world as their art moves from being othered to being the new mainstream, these artists tell of their creative journeys and successes. 

Instead of being another outsider viewpoint of African art, our book has been created to be a first-person document of the current art scene in Ghana as told by those within the community. 

As artist Derek Fordjour extols: “we are witnessing a generation of Africans that are the most connected that we have ever been at any point in history and there is a cultural revolution afoot, not just in contemporary art, literature and music, but also in entrepreneurship and technology.” 

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VOICES: GHANA’S ARTISTS IN THEIR OWN WORDS documents Ghana’s visual artists and the remarkable community that they have nurtured within the country and the diaspora.

The book features over eighty exclusive interviews with Ghanaian visual artists, curators and gallerists working today in the country and as part of the diaspora, including Kesewa Aboah, James Barnor, Zohra Opoku, Campbell Addy, Na-Chainkua Reindorf, Anya Paintsil, Serge Attukwei Clottey, Osei Bonsu, Kwesi Botchway, Kusheda Mensah, BAFIC, Godfried Donkor, Otis Quaicoe, Derek Fordjour, Gideon Appah, Annan Affotey and David Alabo.

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“Who’s to say that the Cezanne of the 21st Century might not be a Ghanaian artist? Transformative works of art can come from anywhere and what we’ve seen in the last ten years in Ghana is a Renaissance. It’s not only brought about a wave of creative production but an understanding for the artists to see themselves as having the ability to be part of a global conversation.” Osei Bonsu, Curator International Art, Tate Modern

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Our book also contains:

A foreword by the writer and curator Ekow Eshun, an introduction by Richmond Orlando Mensah, Founding Director of MANJU Journal, and an afterword by Paul Ninson, Director of DIKAN, Accra.

* 5% of company profits from sales will be donated to causes and efforts that support grassroots visual arts.