Born in Ghana, Kofi Ofosu-Yeboah is following in the footsteps of his ancestors, Djibril Diop Mambèty and Fela Kuti. The cinema is his weapon of choice. His is a trajectory marked with a poetics of refusals. His lens is a river running through a thousand villages, reflecting the hope and aspirations of the African people. With a BFA in Television Production from the National Film and Television Institute in Accra, and an MFA from Columbia College Chicago Cinema Art + Science, he now considers himself an apostate of the academy and commercial cinema. This is a position that stems from his...
Obarima Kofi Ofosu-Yeboah
