Contributors to the fall 2023 issue of Aperture magazine, “Accra,” Kwame Anthony Appiah, Nana Ama Agyemang Asante, Lyle Ashton Harris, and Amy Sall discuss the Ghanaian capital as a site of dynamic voices and histories that connect visual culture in West Africa to the world.
Michael Famighetti, editor in chief, introduces the topic of Ghana’s archive and image history to provide context for the conversation.
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Image: Lyle Ashton Harris, First Lady Rebecca Naa Okaikor Akufo-Addo, the wife of Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and Chairperson of the Infanta Malaria Prevention Foundation, who was then Minister for Foreign Affairs. Her father, Judge Jacob Hackenburg Griffiths-Randolph, was Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana. Her husband is a son of one, and closely related to two other members, of the Big Six, the founding fathers of Ghana.