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Glocal Citizens Episode 202: Creating New Ecologies of Knowledge with Nana Oforiatta AyimGreetings Glocal Citizens! This week’s guest is fast becoming a cultural icon across her chosen disciplines. Ghanaian by ancestry and born in German and spending a formative part of her life in England, Nana Oforiatta Ayim is a writer, filmmaker, and art historian. She is Founder of the ANO Institute of Arts and Knowledge, through which she has pioneered a Pan-African Cultural Encyclopaedia, a Mobile Museums Project, and curated Ghana’s first pavilion at the Venice Biennale. She published her first novel The God Child in 2019, and in German in 2021. She has made award-winning films for muse...

2023-12-1850 min

Glocal Citizens Episode 181: Pictures Worth Thousands of Words with James Barnor Part 3Summer Solstice Greetings Glocal Citizens! I’m fresh off of a couple of weeks of ramping up the summer in Europe where the sun was truly a superstar right alongside my guest for the next few episodes. James Barnor is a Ghanaian photographer who has been based in London since the 1990s. His career spans six decades, and although for much of that period his work was not widely known, it has latterly been discovered by new audiences. In his street and studio photography, Barnor represents societies in transition in the 1950s and 1960s: Ghana moving toward in...

2023-07-0419 min

Glocal Citizens Episode 180: Pictures Worth Thousands of Words with James Barnor Part 2Summer Solstice Greetings Glocal Citizens! I’m fresh off of a couple of weeks of ramping up the summer in Europe where the sun was truly a superstar right alongside my guest for the next few episodes. James Barnor is a Ghanaian photographer who has been based in London since the 1990s. His career spans six decades, and although for much of that period his work was not widely known, it has latterly been discovered by new audiences. In his street and studio photography, Barnor represents societies in transition in the 1950s and 1960s: Ghana moving toward in...

2023-06-2740 min

Glocal Citizens Episode 179: Pictures Worth Thousands of Words with James Barnor Part 1Summer Solstice Greetings Glocal Citizens! I’m fresh off of a couple of weeks of ramping up the summer in Europe where the sun was truly a superstar right alongside my guest for the next few episodes. James Barnor is a Ghanaian photographer who has been based in London since the 1990s. His career spans six decades, and although for much of that period his work was not widely known, it has latterly been discovered by new audiences. In his street and studio photography, Barnor represents societies in transition in the 1950s and 1960s: Ghana moving toward in...

2023-06-2043 min

Arts & Ideas Zimbabwean writingA '70s London squat was home to the writer Dambudzo Marechera when he was writing his first novel The House of Hunger (1978), which was published in the Heinemann African Writers series and has now been issued as a Penguin Classic. Tinashe Mushakavanhu is researching his story and writings. Mufaro Makubika has adapted the coming of age story published by NoViolet Bulawayo in 2013 as a play, which is now touring England. Jocelyn Alexander is involved in creating an archive and oral history documenting Southern Africa's liberation armies and has researched experiences of political imprisonment over 50 years in Zimbabwe. Rana...

2023-05-1644 min

Glocal Citizens Episode 116: From Polyglot, to Professor, Policy Advisor to Art Patron with Ekua Yankah Part 2International Women's Day Greetings Glocal Citizens! Did you know IWD was first celebrated in 1911? Commemoration of the date was the outgrowth of the suggestion by Clara Zetkin, a communist activist and advocate for women's rights at the International Conference of Working Women in Copenhagen in 1910. It was first celebrated 1911 in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. For this 111th IWD and in the spirit of advocacy and empowerment, my guest is, and continues to be a woman to watch. She's a thought leader in international development with a passion for young people, health and innovation in Sub-Saharan...

2022-03-1534 min

Glocal Citizens Episode 115: From Polyglot, to Professor, Policy Advisor to Art Patron with Ekua Yankah Part 1International Women's Day Greetings Glocal Citizens! Did you know IWD was first celebrated in 1911? Commemoration of the date was the outgrowth of the suggestion by Clara Zetkin, a communist activist and advocate for women's rights at the International Conference of Working Women in Copenhagen in 1910. It was first celebrated 1911 in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. For this 111th IWD and in the spirit of advocacy and empowerment, my guest is, and continues to be a woman to watch. She's a thought leader in international development with a passion for young people, health and innovation in Sub-Saharan...

2022-03-0829 min

Feuilletonscout Tiefe Einblicke in die ghanaische Gesellschaft: Nana Oforiatta Ayim "Wir Gotteskinder"Nana Oforiatta Ayim Wir Gotteskinder Penguin Books / Random House, München 2021 bei amazon kaufen oder nur hineinlesen bei Thalia kaufen Rezension zum Nachlesen

2022-01-3103 min

Böll Bremen Nana Oforiatta Ayim: „Wir Gotteskinder“Nana Oforiatta Ayim studierte Afrikanische Kunstgeschichte, arbeitete für die UN in New York und ist heute weltweit v. a. als Kunstvermittlerin, Kuratorin und Filmemacherin aktiv. Mit „Wir Gotteskinder“ hat sie einen autobiographischen Roman geschrieben, der die Suche nach verlorenen Wurzeln, kulturellen Zusammenhängen und Beheimatung in verschiedenen Welten thematisiert. Das Unrechts-Bewusstsein für die koloniale Ausbeutung wächst, aber die Konsequenzen, beispielsweise für Kulturgüter in Museen, meist unklar. Im Übersee-Museum Bremen haben wir deshalb mit Nana Oforiatta Ayim und Silke Seybold (Afrika-Referentin des Überseemuseums) auch über die Restitution afrikanischer Kunstwerke gesprochen. Es moderierten Henning Bleyl von der Heinrich Böll...

2021-10-121h 15

Podcast des Literarischen Salons »Wir Gotteskinder«»Wir Gotteskinder« »Eine mutige Neuerfindung der Einwanderungserzählung … Nana Oforiatta Ayim (Schriftstellerin)… verführerisch, poetisch, beispiellos.« So rühmt Literaturstar Taiye Selasi das Romandebüt Wir Gotteskinder von Nana Oforiatta Ayim. Die heute in Accra / Ghana lebende Weltbürgerin Ayim könnte ein gutes Beispiel für den von Telasi geprägten Begriff »Afropolitan« sein – und auch in ihrem Buch geht es um ethnische Wurzeln, gemischte Identitäten oder das Leben als junge afrikanische Immigrantin in Europa, genauer: in Deutschland. Maya Mensah ist im deutschen Exil täglich damit konfrontiert, anders zu sein. Beistand leistet ihr...

2021-09-281h 17

Long Story Short - Der Buch-Podcast mit Karla Paul und Günter Keil Auf literarischer Weltreise: Vier Buchtipps für die ReisetascheVier Autor*innen aus Afrika, Japan, Schweden, Amerika: Wir gehen mit Karla und Günter auf literarische Weltreise. Perfekte Inspiration für Eure Urlaubslektüre! Die Buchtipps in dieser Folge:Als Enkelin eines afrikanischen Königs im deutschen Exil: Ein funkelnder Roman erzählt mit lebhafter Wärme („Wir Gotteskinder“), ein fluffiger, liebevoller und ein bisschen phantastischer Wohlfühlroman („Kleine Wunder um Mitternacht“), ein grandioses literarisches Lehrstück über Liebeskummer, ironisch und philosophisch erzählt („Widerrechtliche Inbesitznahme“) und ein bedachter und hintergründiger Debütroman, der der Frage nachgeht: Wie würdest du leben, wenn du wüsstest, a...

2021-07-1326 min

TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities A Concatenation of RumourPart of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. Named after the original title of Richard Rathbone's book on Nana Ofori Atta I, the King of Akyem Abuakwa in Ghana, this talk will be the first that celebrates the paperback edition of Nana Oforiatta Ayim's celebrated novel The God Child. Both books have the kingdom as their centre, with Nana Oforiatta Ayim's book drawing on that of Richard Rathbone, as well as on her family's memories, for her fictional narrative. In this live event the two discuss the...

2021-05-241h 01

Unframed Podcast S03 E01 / Talk: ‘Museums in the 21st Century’ at Cape Town Art FairTraditionally art museums have functioned as a sanctuary, a place for meditation whilst also offering education. They have also been a cultural resource contributing to the economic engine that has strengthened local businesses through cultural tourism. In recent years, this model of museums as a shrine to history has been rethought particularly with an interest to dramatically increase audiences of every kind, whilst also recognizing the role technology plays in everyday lives. It is said that museums have gone from, “being about something to being for somebody”. Such a shift in perspective has raised many questions about what was and coul...

2020-03-241h 12

Unframed EP20 / Talk: ‘Museums in the 21st Century’ at Cape Town Art FairTraditionally art museums have functioned as a sanctuary, a place for meditation whilst also offering education. They have also been a cultural resource contributing to the economic engine that has strengthened local businesses through cultural tourism. In recent years, this model of museums as a shrine to history has been rethought particularly with an interest to dramatically increase audiences of every kind, whilst also recognizing the role technology plays in everyday lives. It is said that museums have gone from, “being about something to being for somebody”. Such a shift in perspective has raised many questions about what was and coul...

2020-03-241h 12

Unframed Podcast EP20 / Talk: ‘Museums in the 21st Century’ at Cape Town Art FairTraditionally art museums have functioned as a sanctuary, a place for meditation whilst also offering education. They have also been a cultural resource contributing to the economic engine that has strengthened local businesses through cultural tourism. In recent years, this model of museums as a shrine to history has been rethought particularly with an interest to dramatically increase audiences of every kind, whilst also recognizing the role technology plays in everyday lives. It is said that museums have gone from, “being about something to being for somebody”. Such a shift in perspective has raised many questions about what was and coul...

2020-03-241h 12

Arts & Ideas Pan-AfricanismNana Oforiatta Ayim is creating an encyclopedia of online images of Africa to challenge the way it is seen, has curated Ghana's first art pavilion at the Venice Biennale, toured a mobile museum round the country to gather a grass roots history and published her first novel.The God Child by Nana Oforiatta Ayim is out now. Cultural Encyclopaedia is an online resource that includes an A-to-Z index and vertices of clickable images for entries about Africa https://www.culturalencyclopaedia.org/ She has been named as one of the Apollo magazine "40 under 40" and Africa Report's 50 Trailblazers.

2019-12-1044 min

TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities Discussion: How does a curriculum introduce and structure alternate worldviews and knowledges?Blue Weiss, Mia Liyanage, Nana Oforiatta Ayim, Supriya Chaudhuri, and Afua Hirsch, discuss what a decolonial curriculum would look like, part of the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. Mia Liyanage, Common Ground Oxford, Blue Weiss, Common Ground Oxford, Nana Oforiatta Ayim, TORCH / Mellon Global South Visiting Fellow, University of Oxford, Supriya Chaudhuri, TORCH / Mellon Global South Visiting Professor, University of Oxford, Afua Hirsch, Journalist, Broadcaster, Author

2019-02-1928 min

TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities How does a curriculum introduce and structure alternate worldviews and knowledges?Nana Oforiatta Ayim TORCH / Mellon Global South Visiting Fellow, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. Decolonising the curriculum must mean more than simply including diverse texts. As Dalia Gebrial, one of the editors of the new book, Decolonising the University (Pluto Press, 2018) has written, any student and academic-led decolonisation movement must not only 'rigorously understand and define its terms, but locate the university as just one node in a network of spaces where this kind of struggle must be engaged with. To do this...is to...

2019-02-1907 min

1-54 Forum 1-54 Forum Marrakech 2018 | Decolonising Knowledge1-54 Forum Marrakech 23 - 25 February 2018Decolonising Knowledge What is the significance of intangible cultural heritage? How can we re-order the narratives and representations from and about the African continent? And what does truly free education look like? This panel will explore decolonial strategies in the field of knowledge production, with Nana Oforiatta-Ayim (Writer and Art Historian, Accra), Ahmed Skounti (Anthropologist, Marrakech), Grada Kilomba (Artist and Writer, Berlin) and Donna Kukama (Artist, Johannesburg), moderated by Omar Berrada. Image: ©Adnane Zemmama www.1-54.com

2018-02-241h 36

1-54 Forum 1-54 Forum London 2016 | Artist talk: Serge Attukwei Clottey1-54 Forum London6 - 9 October 2016 Artist Talk Artist Serge Attukwei Clottey in conversation with Nana Oforiatta Ayim (Creative Director of Gallery 1957, Accra and Founding Director of cultural research initiative, ANO). www.1-54.com

2016-10-061h 05