"If Nollywood was absent at the Berlinale, Ghana was not. Akosua Adoma Owusu gave Ghana
something to cheer about at the Berlinale"

Akosua Adoma Owusu is named one of 30 Black Contemporary Artists under 40

Tribeca Film Institute profiles Akosua Adoma Owusu for Heineken Affinity Award nomination

Studio Museum in Harlem spotlights Fore artist, Akosua Adoma Owusu

CineKenya mentions Owusu's film, Kwaku Ananse

GUBA Awards reviews Owusu's film, Kwaku Ananse

Ghanaian-American Short Film ‘Kwaku Ananse’ to compete at the Berlin Film Festival

West African Folk Tale Competes for the Golden Bear

Kwaku Ananse Film is featured in 2 Dots creative blog

New Film Breathes Life into Old West African Fable - on Owusu's film, Kwaku Ananse

African Folk Tales Come To Life In KWAKU ANANSE

On Studio Museum's exhibition, Fore

Akosua Adoma's "Black Sunshine" (On Promiscuous Ghanaian Hairdresser) Gets Financing Boost

Africa First 2012 Profile: Chatting w/ Ghanaian-American Experimental Filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu

"Owusu has slowly built up an extremely powerful combination of elements...a palpable, tragic, yet hopeful experience for the viewer"

February 22, 2012

"If Chris Rock's Good Hair is an American arena concert, Akosua Adoma Owusu's Me Broni Ba is a secret show: intimate, and the ideal realization of the vision of a valuable genius."

Africa is a Country

African Film workshop with Owusu at Smithsonian National Museum of African Art

Robert Flaherty Seminar 2010, Part 2: Work Forces, July 24th, 2010

Robert Flaherty Seminar 2010, Part 1: Unseen Labor, by R. Emmet Sweeney, July 21st, 2010

"Akosua Adoma Owusu’s deftly wrought films on craftsmanship and culture." - Work in Progress, July 6, 2010

“My White Baby” – Literally & Metaphorically, July 21st, 2010

“What’s unique in Akosua Adoma’s film is the mixture of fact and creative storytelling; the clash of jazzy tunes, documentary footage, slow motion images, and audio and sound tracks that shift in and out of synch. It’s a mood piece, a meditation, a refusal to judge. It’s also edgy, fresh, and fun to watch.” April 14th, 2010

"My White Baby" remixes the traditional anthropological documentary (including the classic story about Euro-colonialism) to a mad and inventive fusion of both forms and formats. Akosua Adoma Owusu replaces the genre's authoritative voice-over with old radio adverts and choir songs, and sends it all back from where it came from. Curly, cunningly political and "based on a true story".

ArtForum, Issue October 2010

“...a striking commentary on intercultural commodification. The film’s final shot is a remarkable super-slow-motion take of the film’s own author performing a double-pirouette with lengthy hair-extensions flying about...the audience is enraptured by the marvels of hair as hair.... This shot provides an aesthetic experience of the fetishization of hair that is the film’s subject, and is truly remarkable as such....If there were an award for best single shot of the festival, this would have to win. But the weight of this shot depends as much upon the quality of the film’s preceding twenty minutes as on its own self-contained aesthetic perfection. As such it is an ideal conclusion to this story of hair as both an object of obsession and a marker of well-braided sociological interconnections.” - Randolph Jordan, Offscreen Magazine

"Subjugation this subtle is easy to deny until Owusu’s camera has shown it to you. She eschews overt didacticism, and her film is more powerful for it." - Chris Klimek, June 12th, 2009

"With its clever series of vignettes and its sedate, almost hypnotic vibe, this film discusses globalized concepts of beauty and unequal power relations. It closes with a slow-moti on shot of a woman shaking out her hair against the background of the night sky. It is a celebration of the beauty of African hair, a special moment that is a bid for freedom as well as being erotic at the same time. - Visions du Reel

Akosua Adoma Owusu’s Me broni ba (My White Baby) brings a Californian film school approach to a funky, impressionistic documentary on hair salons in Ghana and the politics of appearance. - Ian Mundell, April 4th, 2010

'Los Angeles artist Akosua Adoma Owusu juxtaposes bits of archival film to show how African textile patterns have been appropriated without acknowledgement by Modernist interior designers in the West, and how young American whites in the early 1960s did the same with African dance styles. This may sound starchy and academic, but Owusu's film installation is wise, funny and very much on target. " - Steven Litt, September 16, 2008

"Akosua Adoma Owusu screens rhythmic works built from colorful abstract patterns and archival footage reflecting the doubleness of her experience as the child of an American family of Ghanese heritage." -Douglas Max Utter, September 3rd, 2008

Ghanaian-American artist Akosua Adoma Owusu, who juxtaposes images of West African and American women, showcasing their cultural differences while revealing their equal humanity. - Emily Ouzts, September 2008

"Akosua Adoma Owusu’s Buoyant, a several-part installation, is both formally and conceptually astounding. A heap of life preservers, each swathed tightly with bands of blonde and dark synthetic hair, sits adjacent to two streaming videos, and a sign displaying satirical Pool Rules for Non-buoyant Swimmers. The work references the absurd social myths about the buoyancy of African-American women and, essentially, challenges the very haunting issues from which such myths materialize. It’s eerie, in all the right ways." - September 8th, 2008

In a pointedly strange mish-mash of image and culture, the video installation Buoyant, by Akosua Adoma Owusu, features a sculptural stacking of life preservers, which are also featured in the accompanying video work. The circular floats, completely wrapped in alternating blocks of blonde and brunette hair extensions, give a surreal, tactile body to the installation. Even though the total work isn’t about poolside bottled blondes, these echoes of Californian stereotypes lend an eerie counterbalance to Owusu’s central themes. - Mariann Marcum, GLAMFA catalog, August 8th, 2008

Market, Ethics, Frontiers and Bamboo: The 27th Sundance Film Festival, May 19th, 2008