Akosua Adoma Owusu | |
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 Akosua Adoma Owusu in 2016 | |
| Born | January 1, 1984 |
| Nationality | Ghanaian, American |
| Education | master's degrees in the School of Film/Video and School of Fine Art from California Institute of the Arts, bachelor's degere in interdisciplinary degree in Media Studies and Studio Art with distinction from the University of Virginia |
| Alma mater | University of Virginia and California Institute of the Arts |
| Notable work | Kwaku Ananse (film), Me Broni Ba (2009) and Drexciya (film) (2011) |
| Style | Filmmaker, Producer |
| Movement | Feminism |
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| Website | http://akosuaadoma.com/home.html |
Akosua Adoma Owusu (born January 1, 1984) is a Ghanaian-American filmmaker and producer. Her films explore the colliding identities of black immigrants in America through multiple forms ranging from cinematic essays to experimental narratives to reconstructed Black popular media. Interpreting the notion of "double consciousness," coined by sociologist and civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois, Owusu aims to create a third cinematic space or consciousness. In her work, feminism, queerness, and African identities interact in African, white American, and black American cultural spaces.[1][2]
She is currently a Visiting Lecturer at Harvard University and the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.
- ^ "Akosua Adoma Owusu talks about triple consciousness". ArtForum. Retrieved 2019-05-03.
- ^ MacArthur, Julie (18 September 2019). "The Aesthetics of Triple Consciousness". University of Toronto. Retrieved 2019-10-10.