John Akomfrah, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

John Akomfrah

British artist, writer, film director, screenwriter, theorist and curator of Ghanaian descent

Date of Birth: 04-May-1957

Place of Birth: Accra, Greater Accra Region, Ghana

Profession: screenwriter, film director, installation artist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

John Akomfrah, CBE (born 4 May 1957) is a British artist, writer, film director, screenwriter, theorist and curator of Ghanaian descent, whose "commitment to a radicalism both of politics and of cinematic form finds expression in all his films".A founder of the Black Audio Film Collective in 1982, he made his début as a director with Handsworth Songs, which examined the fallout from the 1985 Handsworth riots.
Handsworth Songs went on to win the Grierson Award for Best Documentary in 1987.In the words of The Guardian, he "has secured a reputation as one of the UK’s most pioneering film-makers [whose] poetic works have grappled with race, identity and post-colonial attitudes for over three decades."