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Akosua Adoma Owusu
  • Home
  • Films
    • Damn the Man, Save the Rex!
    • Save the Rex - An Anthology Tribute
    • King of Sanwi
    • White Afro
    • Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us
    • Mahogany Too
    • On Monday of Last Week
    • Reluctantly Queer
    • Bus Nut
    • Kwaku Ananse
    • Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful
    • Drexciya
    • me broni ba (My White Baby)
    • Boyant
    • Revealing Roots
    • Intermittent Delight
    • Tea 4 Two
    • Ajube Kete
  • Installations
  • Curatorial
  • Text
  • About
  • CV
  • Contact
  • Black Light Showcase
  • Rex Cinema Accra
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  • e-flux journal

    “Reluctantly Queer: Akosua Adoma Owusu and Kwame Edwin Otu”

  • Artforum

    “Akosua Adoma Owusu Talks About Triple Consciousness”

  • Film Quarterly

    "Things Said Again" – Me Broni Ba review

  • Black Camera

    "Haunting in Akosua Adoma Owusu's Short Experimental Films"

  • IndieWire

    "6 Avant-Garde Female Filmmakers Who Redefined Cinema"

  • Camera Stylo

    "Liquid Ruin: Aquatic Sonic Infidelity in Akosua Adoma Owusu’s Drexciya (2010)"

  • e-flux Film

    "Staff Picks: Akosua Adoma Owusu – Reluctantly Queer"

  • Film Comment

    "Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us Review (Rotterdam Dispatch)"

  • Film Comment

    "The Decade in Experimental Film"

  • Film Comment

    "Film Lincoln Center celebrated the burgeoning career of Akosua Adoma Owusu"

  • Modern Times Review

    "Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us, which proved to be a rough, angry gem of a picture" at IFFR

  • RogerEbert.com

    "Akosua Adoma Owusu’s marvelous short “King of Sanwi” offers fierce competition" at NYFF 2020

  • Variety

    "Durban FilmMart Winner Touts ‘Sunshine,’ Ghanaian Cinema. Owusu speaks about strength of Africa's storytelling culture"

  • IndieWire

    "Interview: Akosua Adoma Owusu’s ‘Kwaku Ananse’ at the Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia)"

  • IndieWire

    "Akosua Adoma Owusu Named Recipient of Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship + New Film Project Bus Nut"

  • IndieWire

    "Creative Capital Film/Visual Arts Grantee Announcement"

  • Screen Anarchy

    "African Folk Tales Come To Life In KWAKU ANANSE"

  • Little White Lies

    "Black Directors at BFI London Film Festival"

  • Dazed Magazine

    "Ten Experimental Filmmakers Tackling the World’s Big Topics"

  • Another Gaze: A Feminist Film Journal

    "Interviews with Akosua Adoma Owusu" — Issue 03

  • MUBI Notebook

    "Untangling Identity: Akosua Adoma Owusu’s Hair Trilogy" — Essay

  • Found Footage Magazine

    "DÉMONTAGE: WHITE AFRO, by Akosua Adoma Owusu" — Issue #8

  • True Africa

    "Meet the Ghanaian filmmaker who’s adapting Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie"

  • Atlas Magazine

    "The Fearless Issue" (pgs 30-33) — Akosua Adoma Owusu Interview

  • Delfi

    "Ghanaian-American director: African filmmakers are committed to bringing something authentic to cinema" — Akosua Adoma Interview (Lithuania)

  • Never Apart

    "Akosua Adoma Owusu: Reluctantly Queer Interview"

  • The Atlantic

    "The Night They Hadn’t Prepared For"

  • Essence Magazine

    "Filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu Has Adapted A Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Story Into a Short Film"

  • OkayAfrica

    "First Look: The Trailer Based on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 'On Monday of Last Week' Is Here"

  • OkayAfrica

    "First Look: The Trailer Based on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 'On Monday of Last Week' Is Here"

  • Arts.Black

    "A Pathway Towards Home and Healing: On Akosua Owusu’s Reluctantly Queer"

  • Culture Type

    "At Whitney Museum, 'America is Hard to See' Acknowledges African American Contributions to Recent Art History"

  • Short Film Studies Journal, Volume 15, Issue 1, Apr 2025, p. 29 - 34

    "From form to abstraction: Teaching the short experimental film with Me Broni Ba (2009)"

  • e-flux Film

    "Staff Picks: Akosua Adoma Owusu"

  • FEM Magazine

    "The Triple Consciousness of 'On Monday Last Week' (2018)"

  • VIBE

    "‘Black Panther’ Stars Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira To Adapt ‘Americanah’ Into Miniseries"

  • Casa Africa Tour

    "New Voices of African Cinema. Akosua Adoma Owusu"

  • Tabakalera

    "Seasons — Akosua Adoma Owusu"

  • Moderna Museet Stockholm

    "CinemAfrica 2013: Finding Her Roots — Retrospective Akousa Adoma Owusu"

  • Bozar Brussels

    "TRIPLE CONSCIOUSNESS — Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu"

  • MUBI

    Robert Flaherty Seminar 2010, Part 2: Work Forces

  • MUBI

    Robert Flaherty Seminar 2010, Part 1: Unseen Labor

  • ArtForum

    Review: Owusu's Me Broni Ba (My White Baby) makes Top Ten, Issue October 2010

  • Offscreen Magazine

    Review: Me Broni Ba (My White Baby) in Festival du Nouveau Cinema Montreal

  • Cleveland.com

    Review: Owusu's Intermittent Delight, September 16, 2008

  • Flipping the Script

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

  • District Weekly

    Review: Owusu's installation, Buoyant, September 8th, 2008

  • GLAMFA

    Review: Akosua Adoma Owusu's Buoyant, 2008 - GLAMFA catalog, August 8th, 2008

  • The Film Corner

    Drexciya in TIFF African Phantasms: New African Short Films

  • Frieze Blog

    Postcard from Zurich: 15th International Short Film Festival in Winterthur

  • La Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL)

    “Mi bebé blanco”, el cual, dirigido por Akosua Adoma Owusu

  • 24700 News from California Institute of the Arts

    40 Festivals and Counting: Me Broni Ba (my white baby) on the Film Circuit

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