Overview
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Birthday
May 04, 1957 (68 years old)
John Akomfrah
Known For
3min
Movie
2018
John On The Void
Artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah recounts an experience sailing through...
52min
Movie
2008
This Is My Africa
Interviewees discuss the memories, tastes and experiences that they associate...
1h 40m
Movie
1992
Black and White in Colour
A two part documentary that details the contribution of black...
40min
Movie
1991
A Touch of the Tar Brush
Black filmmaker John Akomfrah believes that, for too long, being...
Biography
John Akomfrah, CBE (born 4 May 1957) is a British artist, writer, film director, screenwriter, theorist and curator of Ghanaian descent, whose "commitment to a radicalism both of politics and of cinematic form finds expression in all his films".