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Source: Ipsen, 2015, map 3. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/t/5fae03714cb723054143e2af/1605246046995/Richter+Staircase+Side Written Stories - Richter Fort: A Site of Enslavement and Contested Histories in the Heart of Osu, Accra Staircase located in the courtyard of the Richter House. Source: Dadzie, 2018. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/t/5fae1a5808f95b782a368876/1605246007836/ Written Stories - Richter Fort: A Site of Enslavement and Contested Histories in the Heart of Osu, Accra Façade and entryway to the Richter House. Source: Dadzie, 2018. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/t/5fae030ee741ef42c9d25fd7/1605246038815/Richter+Staircase Written Stories - Richter Fort: A Site of Enslavement and Contested Histories in the Heart of Osu, Accra Staircase located in the courtyard of the Richter House. Source: Dadzie, 2018. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/t/5fae1c0964ed982990f66ccd/1605246012318/ Written Stories - Richter Fort: A Site of Enslavement and Contested Histories in the Heart of Osu, Accra Façade and entryway to the Richter House. Source: Dadzie, 2018. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/t/5fae03e016932f1df5c90025/1605246036033/Richter+Entryway Written Stories - Richter Fort: A Site of Enslavement and Contested Histories in the Heart of Osu, Accra Façade and entryway to the Richter House. Source: Dadzie, 2018. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/t/5fae14bae44daa6be0f30d12/1605244491223/ Written Stories - Richter Fort: A Site of Enslavement and Contested Histories in the Heart of Osu, Accra Reproduced image of how the Richter House would have looked, including the central staircase, which remains today. 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I was around 12 or 13. My family had just come back to Ghana from Australia. My dad had a scholarship so we moved Brisbane. We were there for 3 years. My sister and I were the only black people at our school but the other students were very friendly. Moving back to Ghana wasn’t stressful because we were young so we made friends quickly, but it was good to be around black people again.” – Yaw Atuahene https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/5ef2c214172ff14967651d53/5ef2c507518cd32c6b4ca247/1592969658686/IMG_9443.PNG Photo Stories “This is my grandma, Elizabeth Akua Agyapomah. This photo was taken around 1955 in Accra. My grandma ran a small goods store in town and also sold bofrot in the mornings. She was a mother of 8…Just an all around graceful, strong, and hardworking Ghanaian woman.”-Maria Asare https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/5ef2c214172ff14967651d53/5ef55f754e5e6938e5581682/1593139120396/Angela+Appiah.jpg Photo Stories “This was in my family house in Kaneshie. It was around 1964 so I was 6 or 7. It was my birthday party. I was the apple of dad’s eye so I got all of the cute things. I was the 3rd born but I was the first girl so I was pampered. We were 10 kids but I felt like I should be the boss of everyone. My father took my two elder brothers to England to study so then I did become the boss. I was around 9 or 10 when they left.”- Angela Appiah https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/5ef2c214172ff14967651d53/5ef55d878575ee1ad65b09f4/1593138608350/Grandma+Ginger.jpg Photo Stories “My great grandmother was a pillar in my family. She moved with purpose and ensured that her children and her grandchildren (and great grandchildren) had access to opportunities and education. When her husband told her that her daughter (my grandmother) shouldn’t go to school, THIS queen was like “oh really? Ok….Bye bye boo, bye”. She was not having someone tell HER what to do. I definitely got some of that in me! She was unwavering, committed, purposeful, steadfast, unapologetic and focused. Even though I didn’t get to truly know her in the physical form, I KNOW and FEEL her in the spirit form. I’m SO grateful that I have her blood running through my veins. I continue to look to her and all of my ancestors to guide me and whisper my next steps. I’m honored to know that I have this Queen holding space for me. I love you Grandma Ginger!”- Submitted by Akua S. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/5ef2c214172ff14967651d53/5ef55dbb82b8e941cd7939b3/1593138643455/Elizabeth+Quaicoo.jpg Photo Stories “I was 8 years old when I lost my grandmother to breast cancer. Her battle showed me a side of her I had never experience before. Her strength and hope spoke to me so loudly; it made me understand that no matter what comes our way, it is our duty and responsibility to fight without rest. This is what we do. This is what she did. Today I am reminded of her resilience and her tenacity, the same perseverance she gifted me through those difficult years, months, and days.” – Submitted by Benjamina Dadzie https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/5ef2c214172ff14967651d53/5ef2c50738346b245dad3ea0/1592969354338/IMG_6711.JPG Photo Stories “My grandmother Cecilia Akua Manu had no formal education, was married at 16/17 years old and married 3 times and had 11 children in all. Even without formal education my grandmother wanted what she didn’t have for her children. My mother Mary Appiah Kubi (pictured) is the 6th eldest of my grandma’s children. She is the only one with education beyond senior high school. My mother went to Osei Kyeretwie senior high school, OKESS and while completing she would go to the market to help her mother sell cloth and other items so she could supplement the partial scholarship she earned for senior high school. When she completed OKESS my mom was recruited into a banking training program, from which she became a bank teller for Social Security Bank Ltd. My mom was in banking for the most of her professional life until becoming an entrepreneur and managing our family business. My sister Agatha and I are the third generation of women from our maternal side. Because of my grandmother’s lack of education and my mother’s limited higher education both wanted better for their offspring. My father as well had 2 years of tertiary education. Coming from these backgrounds my parents wanted the best and highest levels of education for my sister and I. Today I honour the women from my maternal lineage. They are my motivation to continue to work towards quality, accessible, and inclusive education for girls in Ghana.” – Submitted by Elizabeth Patterson https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/5ef2c214172ff14967651d53/5ef8d03adfbc365adab3abb9/1593364654609/Mrs._Sitzler_at_work_with_the_maids_1894-1898-1.jpg Photo Stories The young woman on the far right is Rosina Mansa Bediako, great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother of the co-founders of Lydia Anne (@lydiaannedesigns). This photo was taken between 1894-1898, at the Presbyterian Basel Mission at Agona Nsaba, a town located in the central region of Ghana. According to family lore, Rosina was an expert baker who could determine the optimal bread-baking temperature of a brick oven by simply sticking her hand inside. Submitted by Andrea Bediako https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/5ef2c214172ff14967651d53/5ef2c50843255a5168c90360/1592969325078/Kwartengs.jpg Photo Stories “Having a big family is a lot of fun. You get to follow the footsteps of your big brothers and sisters. You learn a lot. You learn to cooperate, you learn to share, you learn patience because sometimes you’re bullied. You also learn how to live together in a big family. You learn to support and to care for one another…Those are good habits you acquire from home.” https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/5ef2c214172ff14967651d53/5ef8d03af68194679eead739/1593364662559/Georgina-Appiah-logo-2.jpg Photo Stories This is my mom in 1976 with her oldest son (my oldest brother) and her niece (my cousin). My cousin and brother were born days apart (literally) and they were raised together. The picture was taken in Ashtown, Kumasi at her mother’s residence. My aunt currently lives at that same residence and I visit it every time I go to Ghana. Submitted by Amma Appiah https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/5ef2c214172ff14967651d53/5ef8d03a2801f1255c07d7a3/1593364700075/Dr.-Daniel-Pryce.jpg Photo Stories “We had a lot of fun during Christmas because we had access to soda and growing up we didn’t get to drink those things often. You had to wait until the holidays to get a hold of soft drinks. So Christmas time was great because we got to drink a lot of Fanta, Coca Cola, biscuits, and we also had the chance to visit my grandmother in the village in the Volta region. I always looked forward to Christmas time.” Dr. Daniel Pryce, pictured at age 13 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/5ef2c214172ff14967651d53/5ef55dd9b02e1134f4ac81c6/1593138700330/Frederick+Opoku+Kofi+Gyekye.jpg Photo Stories My grandfather, Frederick Opoku Kofi Gyekye, was a forester. He is the broader gentleman in this picture in shorts. This picture was taken in 1965 at the Accra zoo. The names of the other people in this picture are unknown, but I assume they are work colleagues in his field. I never had the pleasure of meeting my grandfather. He died just after I was born. I understand he was a stern man who broke my grandmother’s heart with his philandering nature. Now, that’s not the sort of thing one ought to readily admit to a bunch of strangers about one’s ancestors, but it’s the truth and that knowledge certainly has affected me – or at least my craft – today. After my grandparent’s bitter divorce, my grandmother found love again and married a man who treated her like a friend…which in my estimation is far better than being treated like a queen. Royalty can be so unapproachable. All the same, my grandmother never spoke of her second husband as often as she did her first. Because of this, several of his mannerisms, sins and quirks have manifested as (some) peculiar traits that the villains and heroes that populate my stories carry. My family is from Larteh (Kubease) and were of the Akantsane – the gold weighers. No one really knows what happened to all the gold. My father tells me it was lost due to “mismanagement”. All the same, my relatives still believe that there is a pot of gold my great-grandfather hid waiting to be discovered in the family house. You can see the concrete patchwork in different parts of the courtyard, where someone attempted (a failed) to a treasure hunt. These are the stories that affect what I do today. I have become a story teller, and since I am not in a position to carry out the family tradition of weighing precious metals, I try to make my written works carry their weight in gold. Submitted by Malaka Grant https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/5ef2c214172ff14967651d53/5ef55cd467b9b669de79dc56/1593138558158/Mrs.+Adjei.jpg Photo Stories This photo was taken in the mid 70’s in the USSR (now Russia). My mother is second from the left and is with her fellow classmates. Ghana and Russia had strong links in the 60’s and 70’s which saw a lot of Ghanaian students head to there for exchange programs and courses. I love this photo! I see how young my mum was at the time and imagine the fear but excitement she must have felt heading to another country in a time when Ghana was really in the throws of re-shaping it’s future after independence. My mother has been a traveler and a Ghanaian civil servant all her life. No matter where she went, sometimes for a year at a time, she always came back home to serve her country. I love that I get to see the beginning of that journey right here in a photograph and find a way to mimic it by returning home to sow into my country and live my dreams. Submitted by Maame Adjei https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/5ef2c214172ff14967651d53/5ef2c5078dc5576f4ff65380/1592969081599/FullSizeRender.jpg Photo Stories “My town was a small town. In Ghana, most of the towns are very small and in the villages we didn’t have electricity. So the children would go to the forest to cut bamboo and we would have a bonfire in the center of the town. All the kids would sit around it and sing and dance. Then we would have a barbecue or bake cassava or plantain. We enjoyed ourselves! And we were very thankful when it was high moon because the moon was our electricity. That was typical village life.”- Reverend Kwasi Gyimah on growing up at Assin Adubiase. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/5ef2c214172ff14967651d53/5ef2c5073dd04e1175a32c94/1592968837444/IMG_4300.JPG Photo Stories “I went to Aggrey Memorial Secondary School in Cape Coast. I started in 1968. It was a good time. It was a small school so you knew almost everybody. It was a rich environment and the education was very good. You would go and study and you would also have fun. On the weekends we had entertainment…It was really a great time for us. [Aggrey Memorial] shaped my life for the better.” Sophia Kwarteng, pictured at age 18 on the campus of Aggrey Memorial A.M.E. Zion Secondary School. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/5ef2c214172ff14967651d53/5ef2c5071b8752053fef8b08/1592968805050/IMG_4095.JPG Photo Stories “I spent 6 years [1968-1974] at KNUST, and in those days things were very good. I remember when we went for our practical attachments. When we came back, they would pay us allowances. Students would use their allowances – the guys would go and buy stereo systems and make a lot of noise in their rooms. Girls would go and buy high heels and put on new shoes and new dresses. Those days were good days for university students, but by the time I was leaving the university there was a coup and things changed.” https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/5ef2c214172ff14967651d53/5ef55e92967a5040b6dbc822/1593139054299/Frederick+Akwaboah.jpg Photo Stories “We rely too much on foreign things. As to who is responsible for it, I don’t know. Some things we can produce here; we can rely on our own [people]. We keep [importing] too many things from outside. It’s not helping us. The little bit of foreign exchange we produce, a lot of it goes out to bring unnecessary things we can produce ourselves. So we should try to have confidence in ourselves and try to do things for ourselves here. Have confidence and I think we should be alright.” Frederick Akwaboah, pictured 3rd from the right, at a student function at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/5ef2c214172ff14967651d53/5ef2c507203eee77c1b87427/1592970015684/006.jpg Photo Stories “[The Big Six] struggled for our independence and we need to make the best of it. Ghana is blessed with everything, natural resources, anything that would make a country prosperous we have. So we just need to make the best of it. I think the change will come with the youth because we are too old to do it. I am hoping that you all will take over the reins and do what needs to be done.” Nana Aba Naaman, pictured at age 16. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/5ef2c214172ff14967651d53/5ef2c50bc1672d3382d815e8/1592970065750/Auntie+Alice+Back+In+The+Day+001.jpg Photo Stories “I didn’t go to secondary school. I saved my money from being a pupil teacher*…to help my mother pay my siblings’ school fees. Some of them came to live with me. My mother was a trader. She sold cloth and did all sorts of odd jobs to take care of us which we appreciated very much.” Alice Boakye discussing her life in the Gold Coast after her father’s death, pictured at age 21. *a young person who plans to be a teacher and who spends part of his or her time in preliminary education undertaking teaching duties under the supervision of the head-teacher (Collins Dictionary) https://www.thenanaproject.org/audio-stories daily 0.75 2021-08-12 https://www.thenanaproject.org/small-chops daily 0.75 2020-11-03 https://www.thenanaproject.org/share-your-story daily 0.75 2020-11-07 https://www.thenanaproject.org/abakosem-festival daily 0.75 2021-06-26 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/t/603525f9adad1b7bece2e9ce/1614096185677/Abakosem+Final+Logo_-white.png Abakosem Festival https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/t/60340b86e9a8e071709844cc/1614609672506/8216FAA4-4CAE-4A08-99F7-1D671FB19813.JPG Abakosem Festival Event Schedule and Tickets https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/t/6031bf5cf3f303090773af28/1614101581903/TNP.jpg Abakosem Festival Event Speakers https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/60313397ae17b8724c7b101c/603137dbf3f3030907695f87/1614128856654/Afropole-logo-black.png Abakosem Festival https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/60313397ae17b8724c7b101c/60417f2315fc37004bee8739/1614905124058/Mu+Chapter+Seal+1.png Abakosem Festival https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/60313397ae17b8724c7b101c/60358972ec086166463660b6/1614121330366/WhatsApp+Image+2021-02-23+at+4.01.25+PM.jpeg Abakosem Festival https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/60313397ae17b8724c7b101c/60313858ccc1ba13867ded33/1614131751048/bEA+logo+transparent+2.png Abakosem Festival https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/60313397ae17b8724c7b101c/6031385821cbd337b575041a/1614131793487/149735610_464354394945412_5106493146634710352_n.jpg Abakosem Festival https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/60313397ae17b8724c7b101c/60367b987e2c1211042b26e5/1614183329831/WhatsApp+Image+2021-02-24+at+9.44.32+AM.jpeg Abakosem Festival https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/60313397ae17b8724c7b101c/603138587dd52d12ad8dbce4/1614128912604/SiHene.jpg Abakosem Festival https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/60313397ae17b8724c7b101c/6031385859eef05b52ed37e3/1613838441058/AOTH+25072020.png Abakosem Festival https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/60313397ae17b8724c7b101c/6034289e48ec6a2ce1c3f793/1614128983027/unnamed-23.jpg Abakosem Festival https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/60313397ae17b8724c7b101c/60315b31888ee60fe7747713/1614128962494/Harmattan+Logo+%5BWhite%5D-01.png Abakosem Festival https://www.thenanaproject.org/abakosem-speakers daily 0.75 2021-02-24 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/t/6035297a62870b0bbfc0777d/1614097076530/Abakosem%2BFinal%2BLogo_-02.jpg Abakosem Festival Speakers https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/602db57450e2285993945766/602db5e4a0c09b2b0822713e/1613843286664/unnamed-20.jpg Abakosem Festival Speakers Emmanuella Amoh is a researcher with interest in black nationalist movements and the socio-political impact of the transatlantic relationship between Africans and Diaspora Africans. She has a BA in History and English from the University of Ghana and an MS in History from Illinois State University. She is currently pursuing a PhD degree examining the connections between the development of Pan-Africanism and the Civil Rights Movement. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/60314c04f1d39225a05d58a8/60314cfa6230de761c8b425d/1613844069832/1-4.jpg Abakosem Festival Speakers Amma Aboagye is the Founding Curator of the Afropole and will boil her life's work down to one thing: value addition. Amma is a fervent believer in the power of people to drive change and has been using various forms of media, including blogs and radio programming, to empower youth and promote meaningful conversations about the role Afrodiasporans play in their global advancement. In 2017, Amma launched The Afropole, a brokerage that seeks to connect African and Afrodiasporan businesses in the food, beauty and creative spaces. In 2019, she hosted the first ever Wax Print Festival as a celebration of African ingenuity and innovation. Later that year, she launched her podcast, Inside Out by Amma G. a podcast all about intrapreneurship and corporate venturing: how do you build within a system. Amma is a self described “cultural innovator” and believes that Africans and Afrodiasporans have the power to carve a niche in those spaces that will propel Black people toward economic independence. When Amma is not working, she can be found dancing on instagram. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/60314e7fae17b8724c7cfb3c/60314ec98a8e7b157b65b9ba/1614022961024/PNkansah.jpg Abakosem Festival Speakers British-Ghanaian based Artist & Curator, Paulina Nkansah has been exploring her love for culture, music and stories in her pieces for the past 4 years. In 2020, she decided to take her long-standing love and passion for Highlife/African Popular music and share it with the world through her digital archive museum called ‘An Ode to Highlife’, which is dedicated to retelling and preserving the diverse history of Highlife/African Popular Music and its legacy. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/603149a1f5472a1e601b3d5e/6031632d11599b670327bd77/1614094729119/IMG_1338.jpg Abakosem Festival Speakers Benjamina Efua Dadzie is a writer and researcher, with an interest in West African cultures, especially Akan and Yoruba. She has a BA (Hons) in Archaeology from the University of Manchester, and an MA in the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas from the University of East Anglia. Her current research deals with the impact of missionary presence in 19th century Abeokuta (southwestern Nigeria), focusing on changes in identity and material culture. She is a Collections Assistant in Anthropology at the University of Cambridge's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology; the Digital Editor of the award-winning open-access publication 100 Histories of 100 Worlds in 1 Object; and a Researcher at The Nana Project, where she leads content development with a focus on pre- and colonial Ghana. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/602db57450e2285993945766/602db617e742212c66713ac2/1614031640011/image_6487327.JPG Abakosem Festival Speakers Anakwa Dwamena, a journalist and researcher, is a contributing editor for Africa is A Country. He previously worked at The New Yorker, The Nation and The New Republic magazines. He writes about US-Africa politics and the lives of African immigrants in America. He is a graduate of Georgetown University in DC, where he studied Government and African Studies. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/603149a1f5472a1e601b3d5e/60314a5ce8886f045c0f1410/1613940381767/Adjoa%2Bfor%2Binsta%2B%25281%2529%2B%25281%2529.jpg Abakosem Festival Speakers Adjoa Armah is an artist, writer and curator, with a background in material anthropology and design. Her work is concerned with the entanglement between narrative, archival practice, art, pedagogy, Black ontology, ethnology, and the political imagination. She is founder of Saman Archive, an archive of photographic negatives collected across Ghana. Through Saman Archive Adjoa explores what it might mean to dwell in an archive otherwise, as praxis and an extension of epistemological horizons. Adjoa is associate lecturer in BA Fine Art Critical Studies at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. She is also visiting lecturer in graduate studies in various programmes across art and design. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/602db57450e2285993945766/602db6593518c0016e69e14c/1614031659805/Nana+Ama+Agyemang+Asante+-+cropped.jpg Abakosem Festival Speakers Nana Ama Agyemang Asante currently works as a freelancer. She was formerly the co-host of one of the most listened to morning shows in Ghana, the Citi Breakfast Show (CBS). The CBS is a public interest radio where hosts speak truth to power and citizens. For seven years, Nana Ama provided the much needed feminine perspective on national issues and debates. She helped direct national attention to social issues and minority rights. Nana Ama was also the deputy online editor of Citi FM’s news website, citifmonline.com supervising the production of factual, timely, and accurate stories. From June 2011 to September 2014, Nana Ama served as the Country Coordinator of Journalists for Human Rights (Jhr) a Canadian NGO that promotes human rights and governance stories across the African continent. She coordinated the NGO’s and trainers’ relationships with local journalists and media houses. Nana Ama was recently a fellow at the Reuters Institute of Journalism at the University of Oxford and the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington DC. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/60314c04f1d39225a05d58a8/60314d2021cbd337b576919a/1613853312703/Manhyia.jpg Abakosem Festival Speakers Osei-Bonsu Safo-Kantanka is a historian and researcher of language, culture, and tradition. He is currently a researcher at Manhyia Palace in Kumasi, the home of the Asantehene. He specializes in knowledge of Handicrafts, Textiles, Symbols, art and artifacts. He is the co-author of Kente Cloth: History and Culture and is the creator of the Bonwire Kente Festival. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/60314c04f1d39225a05d58a8/60314d936230de761c8b4fe7/1613843978931/Nana+Ekua+Brew-Hammond_photo+credit+Essie+Brew-Hammond_clothing+credit+EXIT+14.jpg Abakosem Festival Speakers Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond is the author of Powder Necklace, which Publishers Weekly called "a winning debut." Named to the “Africa39” list of writers “with the potential and talent to define trends in the development of literature from Sub-Saharan Africa and the diaspora,” her short fiction was included in the anthology Africa39. Her work also appears in Everyday People: The Color of Life, New Daughters of Africa, and Accra Noir among others. Forthcoming from Brew-Hammond are a children's picture book, a novel, and an anthology. Brew-Hammond was a 2019 Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellow, a 2018 Aké Arts and Book Festival Guest Author, a 2017 Aspen Ideas Festival Scholar, a 2016 Hedgebrook Writer-in-Residence, and a 2015 Rhode Island Writers Colony Writer-in-Residence. Every month, Brew-Hammond co-leads a writing fellowship whose mission is to write light into the darkness. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/60314c04f1d39225a05d58a8/60369e3a781a597a9901bf51/1614192221548/WhatsApp+Image+2021-02-24+at+12.38.17+PM.jpeg Abakosem Festival Speakers Elvis Ativoe is a spokesperson of the Paramount Chief of the Agotime Traditional Area, Nene Nuer Keteku III and former Vice Chairman of the Agotime Kente Festival Planning Committee. He is an advocate for the preservation and promotion of Ghana’s most identifiable symbol, Kente. Elvis has an in-depth knowledge of the evolution of the Ewe Kente, also known as Agbamevor. He has special interest in projecting the customary and traditional usage of the Ewe Kente. Elvis is a Chartered Accountant by Profession and Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, UK and member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana. He is a product of the University of Ghana Business School and holds an Executive Masters in Business Administration from GIMPA and has over 16years working experience across industries. He is currently the Finance Director of Subah Holdings, the ICT Group of the JOSPONG Group of Companies. Elvis is passionate about Youth and Community Development. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/60314e7fae17b8724c7cfb3c/6031504449ccd40dd1a398b4/1614037269890/Ambolley-album+pic.1.JPG Abakosem Festival Speakers The Legendary Gyedu Blay Ambolley from Ghana, West Africa has 30 albums to his credit. His 30th album was released in May 2017 by Agogo Records in Germany and having lots of wonderful reviews across board. Ambolley, affectionately known as the "Simigwa Do Man", was born in the port city of Sekondi-Takoradi, in the Western Region of Ghana, West Afrika. This versatile, irrepressible singer, songwriter, producer and "musical-life-force" exploded on the music scene in 1973 with a jazzy highlife sounds called 'SIMIGWA-DO'. Ambolley's name has become synonymous with Simigwa music and dance since his first hit single was released in 1973 and that was the first ever recorded rap music commercially in the world before the Sugar Hill Gang in America. Ambolley has received numerous prestigious accolades/awards. Installed by Nana Kobina Nketsia of Essikado, Sekondi as Nana Gyedu Blay Ambolley, King of Simigwa music in Sekondi in the Western Region of Ghana. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award - Ghana Music Awards by Vodafone 2013. In 2006, Gubernatorial Recognition Award from the Governor of California as well as an award from the Mayor of California, Board of Supervisors and the City Council of the State of California. He also received a "Congressional Recognition Award' from the United States Congress. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/603149a1f5472a1e601b3d5e/6032c6067738592b37afbd72/1613940356406/unnamed-22.jpg Abakosem Festival Speakers Kwabena Agyare Yeboah is a writer based in Accra, Ghana. He writes reviews, criticism and journalism and literary genres. In 2015, his poem ‘Moonlight’ was nominated for the Pushcart Prize by the Mexico-based Ofi Press. He was the first runner up in the GHSCIENTIFIC Science Writing Competition in 2017. At the inaugural Kofi Awoonor Prize for Literature (Poetry), his manuscript THIS AND OTHER RIVERS earned a mention. He has written for African Arguments, Contemporary &, The Mail & Guardian, Nubuke Foundation’s The New Dawn Blog, Popula, The Storymoja Blog and others. He contributed an essay to Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama’s monograph EXCHANGE-EXCHANGER (1957 - 2017). He has contributed poems and short stories to anthologies including OBIBINI TE ASE and ACCORDING TO SOURCES. In 2019, he independently realised the EVOLUTION OF SCIENCE exhibition for GHscientific. Since 2020, he has been working as an institutional curator with Nubuke Foundation in Accra. Photo credit: 2cp Photography https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/60314e7fae17b8724c7cfb3c/6031516df3f30309076b73ee/1614037307618/Agya%2BKoo%2BNimo.jpg Abakosem Festival Speakers Legendary musician and guitarist, Agya Koo Nimo is a leader of the Palmwine music genre (Sadwaase ndwon) with a career spanning seven decades. With his acoustic music he tells stories rooted in the values and principles of his culture. Through his distinctive sound, Koo Nimo weaves the culture of his native Asante with the motifs of mainstream music, creating both a celebration of Ghanaian folklore songs and telling the history of a nation. Koo Nimo has been the recipient of many prestigious appointments and honours, including Visiting Senior Lecturer, Department of Music, at Cape Coast University; Member of the Education Commission of Ghana, Asanteman Award from the Asantehene Otumfuo Opoku Ware II; Resident Scholar and Doctor of Letters (Honoris Causa) from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology; and the Du Bois-Padmore-Amu Award for Lifetime Achievement from the African American Heritage Award. In 2009 he established the Koo Nimo Cultural Resource Centre. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/602db57450e2285993945766/602db687f25f495d61c7ef4a/1614184046964/160421_BenjaminTalton-2468.jpg Abakosem Festival Speakers Dr. Benjamin Talton is an Associate Professor of African History. His research, writing, and teaching focus on politics and culture in modern Africa and the African Diaspora. Dr. Talton has formerly been a Visiting Senior Lecturer and Scholar-in-Residence at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana. Professor Talton serves on the executive board of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD) and is a past president of the Ghana Studies Association. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e99051b8a3476717a296bb6/60314c04f1d39225a05d58a8/60314df1579de851949d5627/1613844013614/WhatsApp+Image+2021-02-12+at+3.45.43+AM.jpeg Abakosem Festival Speakers Gertrude Kunde-Kwallinjam is an entrepreneur and the founder of Smockyworld Limited. Smockyworld is a one-stop fashion centre with access to a variety of quality, original high-end hand-woven and hand-dyed smock fabrics from the north of Ghana (Gonja-land, home of the “fugu”/northern cloth), as well as modern-styled, ready-to-wear apparel and accessories made from these rich fabrics. Smockyworld is dedicated to providing an ensemble of fashion items to clients from all over the world that will enable them to connect to rich Ghanaian (northern) history, make meaningful use of their own unique and modern tastes for fashion, and feel high self-confidence when they appear in any environment. Gertrude wears many hats; besides running her own business, she is also renowned in the banking sector. She is the Northern Regional Sales & Services Manager for Fidelity Bank Ghana and takes charge of all the bank’s branches and agents in the Brong Ahafo, Northern, Upper East and Upper West Regions. She holds a Commonwealth Executive MBA certificate from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Sociology from the University of Ghana. https://www.thenanaproject.org/events daily 0.75 2021-06-26