Gus Casely-Hayford | |
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 Casely-Hayford (2015) | |
| Born | Augustus Lavinus Casely-Hayford 1964 (age 59–60) Wandsworth, London, UK |
| Alma mater | School of Oriental and African Studies |
| Occupation(s) | Curator, historian, broadcaster, lecturer |
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Augustus Lavinus Casely-Hayford OBE (born 1964) is a British curator, cultural historian, broadcaster and lecturer with ancestral Ghanaian roots in the Casely-Hayford family.[1]
He is presently the Director of V&A East and was formerly the Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in June 2018 for his services to Arts and Culture.[2] and Professor of Practice at SOAS in 2021. He was commissioned to present a second TV series of Tate Walks for Sky Arts in 2017 featuring David Bailey, Helena Bonham Carter, Billy Connolly, Robert Lindsay, Jeremy Paxman and Harriet Walter.[3] Casely-Hayford was awarded the Leader of the Year for Arts and Media by the Black British Business Awards 2017. He delivered a TED talk in August 2017.[4] He has been awarded a Cultural Fellowship at King's College, London, and a Fellowship at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).[5][6]
In 2010, as part of the Wonderful Africa Season,[7] he presented Lost Kingdoms of Africa, four 60-minute television programmes for BBC Two and BBC Four;[8] in 2014, the series was broadcast by the French-speaking TV channel Histoire. He was commissioned to present a second series in February 2012. He wrote the book Lost Kingdoms of Africa in 2012, published by Bantam Press. He presented a study of William Hogarth and the 18th century for the television series The Genius of British Art, on Channel 4, in 2010 and hosted The Culture Show for BBC 2 in 2012.[9] In 2016 Casely-Hayford presented the television series Tate Walks for Sky Arts. He is also the author of a book on Timbuktu, published in 2018 by Ladybird/Penguin. Since 2022, he has hosted a reboot of the long-running archeological television show Time Team, viewable on the Time Team Official Channel on YouTube.
- ^ "Ghana at Fifty: Leaders on the UK Arts scene – A selection of profiles of the UK’s leading figures in the arts, all Ghana-born or with Ghanaian roots" Archived 4 January 2013 at archive.today, BBC Africa Beyond website.
- ^ "Order of the British Empire", The Gazette, 9 June 2018.
- ^ "Tate Britain’s Great British Walks", Tate.
- ^ "The powerful stories that shaped Africa", TEDGlobal 2017.
- ^ Staff, Centre of African Studies, SOAS.
- ^ "SOAS". msbwrites.co.uk. 15 July 2016. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
- ^ "Wonderful Africa Season". BBC. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
- ^ "Lost Kingdoms of Africa", BBC Four.
- ^ "The Genius of British Art – Series 1 – Episode 2 – Art for the People". Channel 4. 10 October 2010. Retrieved 14 February 2012.