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Posted By admin on January 11, 2022

Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/3sjURYz Co-sponsored by Yales Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies A presentation of survivors semiotics with acclaimed artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, founder of the Nkyinkyim Museum in Nuhalenya Ada, Ghana (https://ancestorprojectgh.com). He notes, The word Nkyinkyim is both an adinkra symbol and a proverb. It directly relates to the travels made by our ancestors and also their journeys from where they migrated from. It also refers to the physical shape of the art installation which is going to be in twists and turns.Akoto-Bamfos Nkyinkyim Installation stands at the entrance of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice (https://nyti.ms/2xHxn51) in Montgomery, Alabama, opened in 2018 by the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), the first memorial dedicated to the legacy of enslaved black people, people terrorized by lynching, African Americans humiliated by racial segregation and Jim Crow, and people of color burdened with contemporary presumptions of guilt and police violence. In 2021, Akoto-Bamfos Blank Slate Monument (https://blankslatemonument.com) toured throughout the U.S., from Louisville, to the King Center in Atlanta, among other stops.Akoto-Bamfo won the 2015 Kuenyehia Art Prize, Ghanas top prize for contemporary art. He is a graduate of KNUST in Kumasi, Ghana. He last visited and spoke at Beinecke Library on Martin Luther King Day 2020, one of our last major on-site events before the pandemic. We are honored by his return, virtually, to join us in 2022 from Ghana and delighted to be able to reach an even larger audience online this year. More on Akoto-Bamfo and his work:*Monument Lab, 2021: Building Restorative Justice Across the African Diaspora https://bit.ly/3yI1hlf *EJI, 2019: Nkyinkyim Sculpture at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice https://bit.ly/3GWIsxH*BBC, 2019: You See the Face of Our Ancestors https://bbc.in/3yGrW1O*The Root, 2018: Lynching Memorial: Ghanaian Artist Hopes Sculpture Captures Shared Pain Between African Americans and the Motherland https://bit.ly/3p8N9OH

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Mondays at Beinecke: Building Restorative Justice Across the African Diaspora with Kwame Akoto-Bamfo - Yale News

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