Across Africa, creative hubs are emerging, but Ghana’s artists and photographers are setting the nation’s creative scene apart. Since 2015, Manju Journal, a pan-African digital platform founded by Richmond Orland Mensah, has championed the visibility and celebration of talents from across the diaspora, but those of Ghana in particular. So it felt natural for Orland Mensah to create an art book that documents Ghanaian creative viewpoints, spanning different generations and time.
‘The book came about through meetings with the publisher, Twenty Four Thirty Six,’ Orland Mensah says. ‘We wanted to collaborate on a book about Ghana. During lockdown, they had noticed how many creatives and artists they followed on social media posted the Ghanaian flag in their bio, and then also how many Ghanaians were leading London's creative scene, including Edward Enninful, Ozwald Boateng and Ekow Eshun.’ (Wallpaper* contributing editor Eshun is curator of ‘In and Out of Time’, at Gallery 1957 in Accra, Ghana, until 12 December 2023.)
