Directed by Akosua Adoma Owusu • 2007 • United States
Akosua Adoma Owusu explores the intersection of identity and cultural appropriation in this experimental collage that juxtaposes close-ups of batik textiles, fashion and design from the 1950s and ’60s, images of men weaving and women sewing in Ghana, and fragments of a vintage Westinghouse commercial.
Directed by Akosua Adoma Owusu • 2009 • Ghana
This innovative portrait of hair salons in Kumasi, Ghana, uncovers the meaning behind the Akan term of endearment “me broni ba” (“my white baby”). The tangled legacy of European colonialism in Africa is evoked through images of women practicing hair ...
Directed by Akosua Adoma Owusu • 2010 • Ghana
Akosua Adoma Owusu draws on the Afrofuturist legends propagated by the underground Detroit-based band Drexciya—about a mythical underwater subcontinent populated by the unborn children of African women thrown overboard during the Transatlantic slave ...
