Nigerian academic
Awam Amkpa is a professor of drama, film and social and cultural analysis at New York University in New York and Abu Dhabi. Actor, playwright, director of stage plays, films and curator of visual arts, Awam Amkpa is a Nigerian-American.
Background.
Currently a professor of Drama and Cultural Theory at the departments of Drama, Tisch School of the Arts and Social and Cultural Analysis, Faculty of Arts and Sciences at New York University. He received his B.A. in Dramatic Arts from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria where he studied under the tutelage of Wole Soyinka, his M.A. in Drama from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria, and his Ph.D. from University of Bristol, Bristol, England.
Career.
Dr. Amkpa is currently a professor of Drama at New York University and in Social and Cultural Analysis/Africana studies at New York University. He has also taught at Mount Holyoke College. He is a theatre scholar and practitioner-director, playwright and actor, film maker and curator of visual and performing arts.
Filmography.
"Truly, Madly, Deeply", 1991 - a ghost
Director/Editor, ‘Accra: A Pan-African Rupture’ 75 mins
Director/Editor, ‘A Very Very Short Story of Nollywood’ 15 mins
Produced by Manthia Diawara. 2008
Director, ‘Women of Agbogloshi’ 12 mins- short documentary
on Muslim women in Accra. 2007
Director, ‘Voices Against Aids’ 5 mins ‘Hip-Life’ music video
shot and broadcast in Ghana for the West African Aids
Federation. 2007
Assistant Director, Conakry Kas, directed by Manthia Diawara
2006
Assistant Director, Bamako Sigi-Kan, directed by Manthia Diawara. 2005
Director, Editor, Wazobia! Feature film written and produced by Tess Onwueme. 2005
Director, The Man Died, Feature Film inspired by the prison memoir of Wole Soyinka, 2024.
“Awam Amkpa: What’s Missing Will be Found," Guernica Magazine, October 2024
Curatorial Practices.
'Africa: Significaciones' at Centro Provincial de artes Plasticas y Diseño, Havana, Cuba. 2017
'ReSignifications: European Blackamoors, Africana Readings.' at Museo Bardini, Villa La Pietra and Galleria Biagiotti, Florence, Italy. 2015
'Africa: See You, See Me' in Beijing and Macau China; Rome and Florence, Italy, Dakar, Senegal and Lagos, Nigeria. 2011-2013
Annual Highlife Music Festival, Accra, Ghana. 2006-2009
Kofi Ghanaba Audi-Visual Archives, Medie-Accra, Ghana 2007-2010
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