The sixth edition of the Chale Wote Street Art Festival takes place August 15 – 21, 2016, with the participation of more than 200 Ghana-based artists and international artists from ten (10) countries. SPIRIT ROBOT, the theme for this year’s festival, embraces a power rooted in humanity. It refers to…
In celebration of father's day we are featuring a project by Diego Asamoa, Ghanian photographer. Diego captures fathers and sons off the coast of Ghana. A place where men are forged from boys.. Visit Portfolio
Bio Zohra Opoku is an Accra-based versatile artist whose work employs media including installations, photography and video to explore the sophistication of textile cultures in disparate spaces targeting fashion’s political and psychological role and socio-cultural dynamics in relation to African history and individualistic or societal identities. This experience enroots her…
Submitted to us by Chimurenga In the fall of 2015, universities across South Africa were engulfed by fires ignited by students’ discontent with the racial discrimination and colonialism that still defines the country's institutes of higher education. The protests broadcast on televisions around the world were neither without precedent nor…
If you are a gamer, and spent too much time on games like Grand Theft Auto you may have noticed the lack of games that take place within Africa. Perhaps it is because of the complicated and often problematic relationship Africa has in being represented in digital media. The project:…
Demosthene’s artwork examines how black culture is commodified and fetishized. Whether through paintings or drawings, she seeks to magnify the subtlety of racial constructs and how viewers have become comfortable with derogatory images. Her most recent work, The Capture, delves into the subconscious mind of a black heroine and the…
Ghanaian-American hip-hop artist and visual artist, Blitz the Ambassador, recently released a trilogy of music videos from his upcoming album Diasporadical EP. The three films are shot and in three locations; Accra, Ghana, Brooklyn, USA and Bahia, Brazil. We wanted to make sure you did not miss the completed trilogy…
Hello Futurist, you will be pleased to discover the photographic essay “The Drone Scrap Program”. In response to the current socio-political climate in Ghana, The Drone Scrap Programme is a “futurist manifestation of Ghana’s socio-economic and socio-political future”. So let us set our clocks forward to 2054… Current Year:…
Artist Serge Attukwei Clottey views 'African Electronics' as a call for African empowerment, and a celebration of the innovation and energy which has been flowing through the continent for centuries. This film follows Serge in his studio and at Chale Wote street art festival as he explores how creative young…
Not many of us think about digital waste but in the heart of Agbogloshie a suburb of Accra, Ghana we are faced with the consequences of electronic waste. The "Digital Dumping Ground" Agbogbloshe is the largest e-waste dump in the world. Photographer Heather Apyepong presents her latest photography project, "…
A bold mixture of Japanese, Cameroonian and Ghanian crafts, designer Noumbissi Constantin creates these adorable toys. Culture is what links individuals to one another to create their identity. As a designer, I'm really interested in what Africa, Europe and Asia can teach me and I'm always amazed to notice that…
Our friends at Stocktown recently launched a brand new project that we are ecstatic about. Roving throughout the continent this series hopes to captures Africa's full range of cultural and artistic scenes. Afripedia is an on-going documentary-project covering Africa’s contemporary culture scene. It covers the most significant and prominent creators…
Commissioned work by South African freelance photographer Alexia Webster. This particular series is spellbounding in the way that it captures public spaces in Urban Africa. The series provokes the viewer to reinterpret architectural structures and you feel as though you are caught in between the present, past and future where…
Alfred Weidinger search for the last surviving monarchs of Africa's grandest kingdoms, from Nigeria to Ghana, Zambia to Cameroon — and from the Ivory Coast to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Even today there are close to 200 tribal kings in Africa, vestiges of a former age – their ancient…
Some inspiration from Philip Kwame Apagya a renowned Ghanaian photographer famous for his elaborate studio portraits set against colorful painted backdrops. philip kwame apagya's formal portraits in front of commissioned painted backgrounds seem to be suspended between realism and a sort of naïvité, they are both unreal and hyperealistic: the…
Photo series by Malte Wandel through his nine month stay in Ghana, Burkina Faso and Togo. In the series “PLEASE DON´T SMILE”, Malte Wandel successfully captures moments of the present in West African towns, from which he highlights certain protagonists and tells their stories. Discreetly, he approaches passers-by, places eccentric…
“Race is something that I can completely manipulate, or reinvent, or use as I want to. Also, they’re all black because...I’m not white....People are tempted to politicize the fact that I paint black figures, and the complexity of this is an essential part of the work. But my starting point…
African Digital Art is a celebration the African culture of art, design and technology. Created and developed by Jepchumba, the platform covers a wide range of artistic production from; audio/visual production, animation, interactive projects, web, film, graphic art and design. Our focus is on artistic work or practice that utilizes digital technology as an essential part of the creative, presentation or distribution process.
