Akosua Adoma Owusu
Sex or gender | female |
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Country of citizenship | Ghana, United States of America |
Name in native language | Akosua Adoma Owusu |
Given name | Akosua |
Family name | Owusu |
Date of birth | 1 Sanda 1984 |
Place of birth | Alexandria |
Languages spoken, written or signed | English |
Occupation | film director, screenwriter, film producer, cinematographer, television producer |
Educated at | California Institute of the Arts, University of Virginia |
Work period (start) | 2008 |
Participant in | Tabakalera |
Award received | Guggenheim Fellowship |
Official website | http://akosuaadoma.com/home.html |
Akosua Adoma Owusu (wɔwoo no Sanda 1, 1984) yɛ Ghana-Amerika sinyiyɛfo (filmmaker) na ɔyɛfo (producer). Nye sinyi ahorow no hwehwɛ ebibifo etubrafo a hɔn wɔ Amerika no nyimpasu a ɔnye hɔn ho hɔn ho bɔ ebira mu dzenam akwan ahorow pii do fir sinyi mu nsɛm a hɔn akyerɛw do kosi asɛm a wɔdze sɔ hwɛ do kosi Ebibifo nsɛm ho amandzɛbɔ a agye dzin a hɔn asan ayɛ do. Ber a Owusu rekyerɛw adwene a ɔnye "adwene ebien - (double consciousness)," a asetra ho ɔbenfo (sociologist) na ɔmanfo hokwan ahorow ho ɔbenfo (civil rights activist) W. E. B. Du Bois dze bae no ase no, ɔdze esi n'enyi do dɛ ɔbɛbɔ sinyi mu ahunmu (cinematic space) anaa nhumu (consciousness) a ɔtɔ do ebiasa. Wɔ n’edwuma mu no, mbasiafo ho adwene (feminism), nwanwasɛm (queerness), na Afrikafo nipasu dzi nkitsaho wɔ Afrika (African identities interact in Africa), Amerikafo aborɔfo (white American), na Amerikafo ebibifo (black American) amambra mbea.