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'Meditative, gestural, philosophic: a brave reinvention of the immigrant narrative ... Unprecedented' Taiye Selasi 'Adept, admirable, important' Guardian Maya grows up in Germany in the shadow of her beautiful, volatile mother: a whirlwind, spinning stories of the family's former glory. Then Kojo arrives. Kojo has a way of talking about Ghana, and empire, and history - and for the first time, Maya understands that her parents are exiles. But fate intervenes, and the cousins are separated. Returning to Ghana years later, Maya's homecoming sets off an exorcism of her country's darkest demons. In this destruction's wake Maya realises her purpose: to tell the story of her mother her cousin, their land and their loss, in her own voice.

The catalogue presents the work of six artists from Ghana and its Diasporas. „Ghana Freedom“ examines the legacies and trajectories of that freedom through the art of Felicia Abban, John Akomfrah, El Anatsui, Ibrahim Mahama, Selasi Awusi Sosu, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, whose unique practices are explored in newly commissioned texts by a generation of young Ghanaian art critics. Text: Hakeem Adam, Sir David Adjaye, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Adjoa Armah, Nana Oforiatta Ayim, Okwui Enwezor, Mae-ling Lokko, Kuukuwa Manful, Larry Ossei-Mensah, Taiye Selasi, Mavis Tetteh-Ocloo