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Artikel-Nr:
9781408882351
Veröffentl:
2020
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.10.2020
Seiten:
241
Autor:
Nana Oforiatta Ayim
Gewicht:
188 g
Format:
198x129x20 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Nana Oforiatta Ayim is a Ghanaian writer, art historian and filmmaker. She is founder of the ANO Institute of Arts & Knowledge, through which she has pioneered a pan-African Cultural Encyclopaedia. Recently appointed a TORCH Global South Visiting Fellow to Oxford University, she is also the recipient of the 2015 Art & Technology Award from LACMA; of the 2016 AIR Award; and of the inaugural 2018 Soros Arts Fellowship. She is a contributor to the 2019 New Daughters of Africa anthology and in February 2019 delivered a TED Talk. Ayim will curate the Ghana's first pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2019. The God Child is her first novel. She lives in Ghana.
'Meditative, gestural, philosophic: a brave reinvention of the immigrant narrative ... Unprecedented' Taiye Selasi'Adept, admirable, important' GuardianMaya grows up in Germany in the shadow of her beautiful, volatile mother: a whirlwind, spinning stories of the family's former glory.Then Kojo arrives. Kojo has a way of talking about Ghana, and empire, and history - and for the first time, Maya understands that her parents are exiles. But fate intervenes, and the cousins are separated.Returning to Ghana years later, Maya's homecoming sets off an exorcism of her country's darkest demons. In this destruction's wake Maya realises her purpose: to tell the story of her mother her cousin, their land and their loss, in her own voice.
A debut novel by one of the most exciting African literary voices to emerge in recent years
Ayim's films have been shown at galleries including the Tate Modern and LACMA. She has been named one of the Apollo '40 under 40'; one of 50 African Trailblazers by the Africa Report; one of OkayAfrica's 12 African women making history; and a Quartz Africa Innovator. She is also a contributor to the New Daughters of Africa anthology