2021 Accra Archive Fellows
The building Early Accra Project and the entire Accra Archive team are pleased to announce our 2021 Accra Archive Fellows. This year, 7 (seven) fellows with a range of backgrounds and interests in archives and histories of Accra were selected from a highly competitive pool of applicants.
The 2021 Accra Archive Fellows are:
Akotowaa Ofori - Writer, affiliated to the Van Aggelen African Literary Agency, Ghana
Alice O. Johnson - Production Assistant at Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, Ghana
Christian Mpazayabo - Creative Director and Content Producer, South Africa
Divine Fiave - Architecture Graduate, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
Lawrencia Amartey - Teaching Assistant with the Architecture Department of Central University College, Ghana
Nathan Quainoo - Freelance Architectural Assistant and Researcher, UK
Selorm Afeke - Junior Architect at Key Architects, Ghana
As part of the program, the Accra Archive Fellows will be producing original work based on histories and archives of Accra, and centred around their personal interests and expertise. This work - articles, videos, graphics and architectural models - will be published on our website and across our social media platforms. The fellows will also be featured in our upcoming exhibition.
The 2021 Accra Archive Fellows
About The bEA Project:
The building Early Accra (bEA) project is digitising a collection of building permit applications submitted to the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) from its earlier manifestation as the Accra Town Council in the early 1900s. This archives digitisation project is funded by The British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme. Project Team: Principal Investigator – Kuukuwa Manful , Assistant Project Coordinator – Lois Naa Kwaale Quartey, Digitisation Officer – Elton Kwei Foli, Project Associate – Joseph Nii Akwei Mensah
About The Accra Archive:
The Accra Archive is a collective concerned with the collection, documentation, and digitisation of archives and historical material from, about, and related to Accra, Ghana.