Kwame Akoto-Bamfo

Nkyinkim by Kwame Akoto-Bamfo at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice that opened in 2018 in Montgomery, Alabama

Kwame Akoto-Bamfo nyɛla bɛ ni dɔɣi so yuuni 1983 ni, ka o nyɛ ŋun mali nucheeni tuun bɔbigu baŋsim, ŋun chanŋ shikuru, ka bɛ mi o bin yɛra kpebu yɛla ni o ningbuna zuɣu tuma din yɛri din pun niŋ ka tiri suhi doo ka vari adalichi kanna gbansabila puuni. O dundɔŋni tuma nyɛla din jendiri taarihi nim din wuhiri ban daa bɛ niŋ katari ka bɛ zaŋba n lee daba ka bɛ mili ni Nkyinkim la , ka bɛ daa zaŋ li wuhisalo yuuni 2018 bɛ ni daa yan puhi chuɣu yuli booni National Memorial for Peace and Justice din daa yoogi Montgomery, Alabama ni la. o binyɛra kpebu tuma ŋo shɛŋa nyɛla din jendi o zaŋ simiinti n mali zuɣu ŋmana din daa paai tuhili ni kɔbishee ka di ʒinti ninvuɣu shabi bɛ ni daa bgahi daba Accra din nyɛ Ghana tiŋzuɣu la . Di yuli n booni Faux-Reedom, ka bɛ daa zaŋli n wuhi salo yuuni unveiled 2017.

Other activities

Public speaking

Kwame Akoto-Bamfo is regularly engaged in public speaking, research, and lectures largely due to his work as a sculptor, archiving and promoting African history and cultural heritage at Nkyinkyim Museum.

Film and television

• The Art of Healing (2022 documentary, in post-production, Executive Producer and Co-writer)
• Enslaved (2020 miniseries)
• The Lost Ancestors

Kpaŋmaŋ pina

• GUBA Influential artist of the Year 2019
• Kuenyehia Prize for Contemporary Artist (Inaugural Winner)

External links

• Tɛmplet:Official
• Biography
• Building Restorative Justice Across the African Diaspora
• Bearing witness to slavery: A sculpture’s trans-Atlantic passage from Ghana to Alabama - The Boston Globe Archived 2018-06-03 at the Wayback Machine
• Kwame Akoto-Bamfo - STOA169
• Artist - Blank Slate Monument
• This traveling sculpture challenges the story Confederate statues tell (nbcnews.com)
• EJI Releases Video on Sculpture About Enslavement
• People&Places: A look into one of Ghana's biggest museums making waves internationally - Nkyinkyim (ghanaweb.com) Archived 2022-11-13 at the Wayback Machine
• Ancestor Project Gh – Ancestor Project Gh Archived 2023-03-21 at the Wayback Machine
• Exploration of the influences that shapes the art and activism.
• David J. Maloney's part one of an interview with Kwame Koto-Bamfo on his influences in representational art dealing with restorative justice and the African diaspora
• Part 2 of the interview with David J. Maloney, discussing the spiritual and contextual aspects of the Nkyinkyim Installation in Montgomery Alabama, and the touring installation of The Blank Slate Monument.

Academic talks/lectures

• Mondays at Beinecke: Building Restorative Justice Across the African Diaspora with Kwame Akoto-Bamfo | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library (yale.edu)
• The Year of Return & Beyond: Reclaiming African History and Ancestry through the Nkyinkyim Installation | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library (yale.edu)
• KABE explains Ancestor Project at University of Ghana, Legon - YouTube