In Ghana, Awanle Ayiboro paints against forced marriages"
09.05.23 (TV 5 Monde)
“Around the age of 13, my mother wanted to give me to a man who could have been my father, I refused" : At 26, Ghanaian painter Awanle Ayiboro Hawa Ali made forced child marriage her "fight."
"At that time, I was always with my parents and I obeyed them. They told me that I would have to go to this man, cook for him, clean his house, but I I didn't want that life, I wanted to become a journalist ," says Awanle Ayiboro.
Artemartis: The ground-breaking art collective shaping Ghana’s art scene
29.03.23 (GQ South Africa)
I came across an exciting art exhibition halfway through February, 2023 and I was intrigued by the thriving art community called Artemartis that’s shaping the art scene in the country one exhibition at a time.
Artemartis is a Ghanaian based Art Agency & Collective with a diverse group of contemporary artists.
A guide to Accra: the heart of Africa's art scene
30.03.23 (National Geographic)
The road past Makola Market is swarming with hawkers. Pavements are littered with leather goods. Women wrapped in hand-loomed fabrics step into the street, balancing giant tubs of kpakpo shito peppers on their heads. Hip-hop blasts from a distant speaker. A preacher delivers a sermon into a megaphone.
Beside me, in the driver’s seat, Selasie Gomado is inching along to the petrol station. An hour ago, he picked me up for a visit to Artemartis, the artists’ collective he runs west of the city centre, but in that time we’ve progressed barely a mile.