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 braiding on discarded white baby dolls.
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 ...
Directed by Akosua Adoma Owusu • 2012 • United States
Playful yet powerful, Akosua Adoma Owusu’s SPLIT ENDS, I FEEL WONDERFUL focuses on African American women’s hair, spinning found footage of 1970s New York hair salons and hairstyles into a dense collage of gesture and image.
Directed by Akosua Adoma Owusu • 2013 • Ghana
Starring Jojo Abot, Koo Nimo, Grace Omaboe
Drawing upon the rich mythology of Ghana, this magical short combines semiautobiographical elements with local folklore to tell the story of a young American woman who returns to West Africa for her father’s...
