RogerEbert.com
"Akosua Adoma Owusu’s marvelous short “King of Sanwi” offers fierce competition) is a movie defined by the limits of cinematic experience and indeed the whole of sensory perception."
Franceinfo Afrique
Du cinéma et de la solidarité: We Are One : A Global Film Festival
Liter Net
White Afro (2019) in Vienna Shorts, 2020
Film Comment Magazine
News to Me: Film at Lincoln Center celebrated the burgeoning career of Akosua Adoma Owusu
2020 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Awards
Akosua Adoma Owusu receives the 2020 Emerging Artist Award for Film at Lincoln Center
E-Flux
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts New Online Library
Africultures
Clermont-Ferrand 2020 : White Afro
Film Comment Magazine
The Film Comment Podcast: Filmmakers on Varda
Filmlinc Daily
6th Annual Film at Lincoln Center Luncheon
Film at Lincoln Center
A New Generation of Filmmakers on Agnès Varda's Influence
Burnaway Art Review
Good Hair: Akosua Adoma Owusu at the CAC, New Orleans
Film Comment Magazine
The Decade in Experimental Film
The Medium
Exploring consciousness in Between Three Worlds
Film Explorer
Selection of the films in the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur Competition - White Afro
Vibe Magazine
‘Black Panther’ Stars Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira To Adapt ‘Americanah’ Into Miniseries
Official Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie site
Short story from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “The Thing Around Your Neck” to be adapted into film version
The Africa Bazaar
Two African Filmmakers Unveil Films at MoMA’s Doc Fortnight Festival
Variety
Akosua Adoma Owusu’s “Welcome to the Jungle” trilogy
Forbes
MoMA’s ‘Doc Fortnight 2020’ Films Will Travel From Florida Retirement Community To Mongolia
Sight & Sound Magazine
The best films of 2019: Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us (2019)
2019 BFI London Film Festival news, features and opinion
Moving images across borders and boundaries: Experimental film at the LFF
ArtForum
Akosua Adoma Owusu talks about triple consciousness
Alumni Aktuell Salvador
Goethe-Institut Alumni Projects: Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us (2019)
Festival du Nouveau cinéma Montreal
Sept films à voir au Festival du Nouveau cinéma
Another Gaze Feminist Journal
In Conversation With Akosua Adoma Owusu by Gazelle Mba
FEM Magazine
The Triple Consciousness of ‘On Monday Last Week’ (2018)
2018 BFI London Film Festival news, features and opinion
Pain, pansexuality and afrofuturism: three films about the body
Essence
Filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu Has Adapted A Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Story Into a Short Film - Watch the Trailer
Senses of Cinema
Mahogany Too featured in World Poll 2018
CalArts
Jack H. Skirball Screening Series at REDCAT receives Grant from The Academy Foundation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
LA Weekly
GoLA Pick: Akosua Adoma Owusu
Opinion Internationale
Ghana : La jeune réalisatrice américano-ghanéenne Akosua Adoma Owusu fait revivre le Rex Cinéma
Directed by Women
Crucial 21st Century Cinema - #Crucial21DbW: Mahogany Too directed by Akosua Adoma Owusu
Contemporary & Magazine
Akosua Adoma Owusu: Welcome to the Jungle - Beauty and Power in Black Hair Culture
KQED
At the Wattis, the Aftermath of an Invasion and a Kaleidoscope of Black Experience
Videoex International Competition
Special Mention Jury Statement of the VideoEx International Competition on Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us (2019)
Letterboxd
Film critic Michael Sicinski on Pelourinho, They Don't Really Care About Us (2019)
Art House Convergence
Around the Art House: Experimental Film
LA Weekly
14 Best Things to Do in L.A. This Week
Screenslate
Intermittent Delight featured in Not Sorry: Consumer at Anthology Film Archives
Nylon Magazine
Here Are All The Best Museum And Gallery Openings This Spring
Creative Capital Blog
Remembering Barbara Hammer: Artists Discuss Her Legacy, Generosity, and Work
Zylofon Media Online
Check Out The Top 10 Hardworking Ghanaian Female Directors/Producers In The Film Industry
Indiewire
Owusu named one of six Avant-Garde Female Filmmakers Who Redefined Cinema
Film Comment
Rotterdam 2019 Dispatch: Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us
Modern Times Review Magazine
IFFR Review: Owusu's Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us
Sight & Sound Magazine
The best films of 2016: Reluctantly Queer (2016)
POV Magazine
Owusu's Reluctantly Queer reviewed for New Directors/NewFilms Festival
Shadow and Act
Kwaku Ananse makes list of 11 Movies That Prove Black Mythology Has Always Existed
Demand Africa
6 African Women Filmmakers On The Rise
Red Bull Music Academy
Infinite Journey to Inner Space: The Legacy of Drexciya
Film Threat
Drexciya by David Finkelstein
Crain's Detroit Business
Intermittent Delight commissioned for Cobo Center video series across Marquee in December
ELLE South Africa
On Monday of Last Week: Interview with Akosua Adoma Owusu
The Nickelodeon Theatre
Interview: Akosua Adoma Owusu on Triple Consciousness
Atlas Magazine Interview
Akosua Adoma Owusu Feature
Shadow And Act
Black Sunshine: 10 upcoming African films to get excited about!
Osei Duro
Interview: Akosua Adoma Owusu - Filmmaker and Producer
OkayAfrica Player
First Look: The Trailer Based on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s ‘On Monday of Last Week’ Is Here
Shadow And Act
Trailer: 'On Monday of Last Week' - New Film based on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Short Story
The Guardian
Accra at 60: concrete heads and colonial questions in Ghana's capital
Dazed
Ten experimental filmmakers tackling the world’s big topics
Never Apart Magazine
Akosua Adoma Owusu: Reluctantly Queer Interview
The McGuill Daily
Never Apart's vernissage celebrates Black and Indigenous histories
Arts and Culture Texas
Full Surround Cinema: Adventures at the 2016 HCAF
Little White Lies
Every film by a black director at the 2016 BFI London Film Festival
Shadow and Act
Cast Announced for Akosua Adoma Owusu’s Adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s ‘On Monday of Last Week’
True Africa
Interview: Meet the Ghanaian filmmaker who’s adapting Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Royal African Film Society
Human of the Week: Akosua Adoma Owusu: The Ghanaian filmmaker adapting Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - What’s Trending #014
The StyleHQ
Interview: On The Verge: Producer - Akosua Adoma Owusu
Elle Magazine South Africa
Akosua Adoma Owusu to adapt Chimamanda Adichie's short story
Essence.com
Another Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Story Is Being Adapted Into a Film
Hollywood's Black Renaissance
Karyn Parsons & More Join Akosua Adoma Owusu’s Film Adaptation of ‘On Monday of Last Week’
Women and Hollywood
Akosua Adoma Owusu Will Adapt Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “On Monday of Last Week”
OkayAfrica International Edition
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Greenlights Filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu to Adapt Short Story
HOOS FOR ART: Akosua Adoma Owusu (College‘05)
University of Virginia Alumni spotlight, Filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu (CAS'05)
Revista 5w
Las africanas se están convirtiendo en líderes de la industria cinematográfica
Brooklyn Magazine
Review: Reluctantly Queer in "The New York African Film Festival’s “Africa in New York” Shorts"
NonFics
The Best of New Directors/New Films 2016 Might Be These 3 Documentary Shorts
Bold As Love Magazine
New Directors/New Films 2016 – Genre Bending Docs and Experimental Film, March 16-27 in NYC
FIPRESCI
Reluctantly Queer featured in A Quest For The Arc Of Safety
Indiewire
Akosua Adoma Owusu's New Short Film 'Reluctantly Queer' in Competition at Berlinale Next Month
Dynamic Africa
12 Films to Watch or Watch Out For: "Reluctantly Queer"
Art Matters
Art Matters and Jerome Foundation artist residency program at Camargo Foundation
MedCity Beat
Rochester Art Center x University of Minnesota Rochester (UMR) on Existential Crisis
ArtForum
ArtForum Critics' pick Akosua Adoma Owusu in Art+Practice
Contemporary Art Review
Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Akosua Adoma Owusu at Art+Practice
Elle Magazine (South Africa)
Meet Akosua Adoma Owusu
Shadow & Act
Akosua Adoma Owusu Named Recipient of Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship + New Film Project 'Bus Nut'
Barcelona Metropolitan
New Voices of African Cinema: The work of Ghanaian-American filmmaker, Akosua Adoma Owusu
Berria
ATZEKOZ AURRERA. Akosua Adoma Owusu. Zinemagilea
«Identitateari buruz aritzea ukaezina zait»ArtForum
2015 Guggenheim Fellows Announced
International Review of African American Art
Triple Consciousness: Diasporic Art in the American context - Akosua Adoma Owusu: Exploring Threeness
Indiana University Press
Black Camera Commentary: Haunting in Akosua Adoma Owusu's Short Experimental Films by Nzingha Kendall, Black Camera Vol. 5, No. 1 (Fall 2013), pp. 232-236
The Huffington Post
Akosua Adoma Owusu is named one of 30 Black Contemporary Artists under 40
Fowler Museum
Fowler In Focus: The Art of Hair in Africa
The MacDowell Colony
A Friends of MacDowell trip to the new Whitney Museum with featured Fellow Akosua Adoma Owusu
Culture Type
At Whitney Museum, ‘America is Hard to See’ Acknowledges African American Contributions to Recent Art History
For Harriet
Owusu makes one of 10 Contemporary Black Women Visual Artists You Should Know
Frieze
Prospect.3
BlackStar Film Festival Program Guide
Interview: Akosua Adoma Owusu
Shadow & Act
Interview: Akosua Adoma Owusu's 'Kwaku Ananse' at the Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia)
This is Africa
#WCW – Akosua Adoma Owusu
ScreenAfrica
DFM success stories
Variety
Cannes: 6th Durban FilmMart Edition Unveils Projects
Screendaily
Durban Filmart selects 19 projects
This is Africa
Akosua Adoma Owusu: From ‘Kwaku Ananse’ to ‘Bus Nut’
OkayAfrica Player
Ghanaian-American Filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu Focuses On Rosa Parks & The Civil Rights Movement In ‘Bus Nut
Africa is a Country
10 Films you have to see at this year’s New York African Film Festival
EurWeb
The Film Strip: NY African Film Festival is Feast for Eyes and Soul
Shadow & Act
Black Sunshine from Akosua Adoma Owusu is Tribeca All Access Pick
Shadow & Act
2014 IFP Project Forum Slate Includes New Work From Akosua Adoma Owusu
Ioncinema
2014 IFP Independent Film Week
Shadow & Act
An Evening with Experimental Filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu in Chicago Nov. 14
ArtForum
Prospect.3 by Nick Stillman
Variety
Thailand’s Apichatpong Weerasethakul Backed by Berlin’s World Cinema Fund
Shadow & Act
Akosua Adoma Owusu's 'Black Sunshine' is a Berlinale World Cinema Fund Selection
Screendaily
WCF announces latest funding round
GhanaWeb
Kwaw Ansah heads FESPACO jury as Akosua Adoma’s ‘Kweku Ananse’, NAFTI nominated
GhanaWeb
FESPACO 2015 to go ahead
Variety
Interview: Durban FilmMart Winner Touts ‘Sunshine,’ Ghanaian Cinema
Shadow & Act
Akosua Adoma Owusu, Rungano Nyoni, Others Collect Durban FilmMart Cash Awards
Shadow & Act
Durban FilmMart 2013 Project Selections (Nikyatu Jusu, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Rungano Nyoni)
AFP - Agence France Press
Video Interview: Filmmaker hoping to rejuvenate Ghana's dilapidated old cinemas
TV3 Ghana
Interview: Owusu speaks to television presenter, Ama K Abebrese on the New Day show at TV3 Studios on Save the Rex Cinema Initiative in Accra
Africa is A Country
Interview: Reimagining Ghana's Cinemaspace
OkayAfrica Player
Kwaku Ananse makes OkayAfrica's Top African Films of 2013
Africa is A Country
Kwaku Ananse makes Africa is A Country's Top 10 Films of 2013
BuniTV
Owusu makes BuniTv's Filmmakers of 2013
Le Quotidien Maghrébin
Accra : Le cinéma Rex, en danger de disparition, mobilise pour sa sauvegarde une réalisatrice réalisatrice américano-ghanéenne
Mimi Magazine
Preserving Ghana’s Cultural Heritage One Theatre At A Time
Il Pane le Rose
Ghana. Riapre il Rex, Cinema Storico Di Accra
Studio Africa
Filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu has launched a Kickstarter campaign to Save the Rex
Ebru News coverage
Ghanian Artist on a Mission to Revive Film Houses
Another Africa
The Treasures of Accra’s Growing Art Scene
Daily Nation (Kenya)
Filmmaker battles to save historic Ghana cinema
Le Nouvel Observateur
Ghana: une réalisatrice se bat pour sauver le cinéma Rex
OkayAfrica Player
Cinemafrique: Saul Williams & Anisia Uzeyman’s ‘Dreamstates,’ Accra’s Rex Theatre, ‘Finding Fela’ Trailer + More
Heave Media
Owusu's Anancy installation in 'Ghost Nature' at Gallery 400
Design233
Interview: Akosua Adoma Owusu on Life and Saving the Rex Cinema in Accra, Ghana
OkayAfrica Player
Interview: Owusu’s Campaign To Transform Accra’s Rex Cinema
Black Film Center/Archive
Interview: Akosua Adoma Owusu Reinvigorates Ghanaian Cinema Culture
Variety
Durban FilmMart Winner Touts ‘Sunshine,’ Ghanaian Cinema. Owusu speaks about strength of Africa's storytelling culture
Accra[dot]Alt
Interview: HIGHLIGHTS OF 2013: The Girl Who Brought You Kwaku Ananse
Morelia Film Festival
Kwaku Ananse at the London Film Festival 2013
Stream Africa
Interview: Artist/Filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu from Ghana
Africine
Interview with Akosua Adoma Owusu, director of Kwaku Ananse (Ghana) North American Premiere at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)
Indiewire
Akosua Adoma Owusu, Rungano Nyoni, Others Collect Durban FilmMart Cash Awards
Variety
Interview: Durban FilmMart Arte France International Prize Winner Touts ‘Sunshine,’ Ghanaian Cinema
Berlinale Short Talks
Interview: Owusu talks about short film, Kwaku Ananse at the Berlinale
Studio Museum in Harlem
Spotlight: Fore artist, Akosua Adoma Owusu
CineKenya
CineKenya mentions Owusu's film, Kwaku Ananse
GUBA Awards
Akosua Adoma Owusu…tells.. A Modern Day Kwaku Ananse Story
Sound on Sight
The Toronto International Film Festival Rolls Out Its Red-Hot Carpet
For An International Roster Of Filmmakers And ActorsTwitch Film
African Folk Tales Come To Life In KWAKU ANANSE
Is It Post-Black Yet?
On Studio Museum's exhibition, Fore
LA Weekly
Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including a Black-Light Painting Tour
Underground Film Journal
2013 Ann Arbor Film Festival: Award Winners
Indiewire
Akosua Adoma's "Black Sunshine" (On Promiscuous Ghanaian Hairdresser) Gets Financing Boost
Shadow and Act
Interview: Africa First 2012 Profile: Chatting w/ Ghanaian-American Experimental Filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu
Africa is a Country
Review: Owusu's "Drexciya" in Film and Johannesburg’s Ponte City
Africa is a Country
Owusu's film "Drexciya" makes Top Ten Films of 2011
Shadow & Act
Black Futurist Short Films Screening In L.A. Next Week
Flipping the Script
African Film workshop with Owusu at Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
MUBI
Robert Flaherty Seminar 2010, Part 2: Work Forces
MUBI
Robert Flaherty Seminar 2010, Part 1: Unseen Labor
ArtForum
Work in Progress by Dennis Lim, July 6, 2010
Shadow and Act
“My White Baby” – Literally & Metaphorically, July 21st, 2010
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
Washington City Paper
Review: Owusu's film, Me Broni Ba (My White Baby), June 12th, 2009
Senses of Cinema
Review: Me Broni Ba (My White Baby) at Rotterdam Film Festival, April 4th, 2010
Cleveland.com
Review: Owusu's Intermittent Delight, September 16, 2008
Cleveland Scene
Review: Owusu's 'Intermittent Delight', September 3rd, 2008
Cleveland Magazine
Review: Owusu's film, 'Intermittent Delight' in Bi-Lingual exhibition, September 2008
District Weekly
Review: Owusu's installation, Buoyant, September 8th, 2008
GLAMFA
Review: Akosua Adoma Owusu's Buoyant, 2008 - GLAMFA catalog, August 8th, 2008
Shadow & Act
Tonight: 'The Future Weird: Black Atlantis' (Films By Akosua Adoma Owusu, Nikyatu Jusu, Barry Jenkins, Kibwe Tavares)
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
SF Weekly
Whip My Hair
24700 News from California Institute of the Arts
40 Festivals and Counting: Me Broni Ba (my white baby) on the Film Circuit