Creating new ecologies of knowledge by uncovering Pan-African Knowledge Systems
Writer. Filmmaker. Art Historian. Polymodernist.
Nana Oforiatta Ayim is a Writer, Filmmaker, and Art Historian. Whilst researching for her Masters in African Art History, she realised all the terms and concepts used to describe Ghanaian artistic expression were Western ones, and that it was near to impossible in her academic research to find philosophies or theories that stemmed from the context within which they were made. Her research process led her to the Ayan, a form of telling history in Ghana; and the Afahye, a historical exhibition or Gesamtkunstwerk model.
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The God Child
“A moving, mesmerizing, and astoundingly original debut novel by one of the most exciting literary voices to emerge in recent years.”
The God Child is a coming-of-age story about a young girl finding her freedom in the midst of familial, cultural, and political constraints. With a bracing combination of power and vulnerability, Ayim’s debut is about how families, and nations, overcome the limitations of the past through the cycles of generations.”
