ABOUT US

Antubam is an art and culture quarterly review dedicated to the memory of the Late Kofi Antubam (1922 – 1964), the pioneering Ghanaian artist, designer, teacher, author, and father of Ghanaian modernism. An alumnus of Achimota College (where he understudied Russian sculptor Herbert Vladimir Meyerowitz), and of Goldsmith’s College, London, Antubam left an indelible legacy, including the creation of the presidential chair and maze, and various state commissioned relief murals, for a newly independent Ghana. His influential book, Ghana’s Heritage of Culture, proposed a national art that represented Ghana’s political and cultural history, while drawing attention to the nation’s extensive contributions to the world of art. Above all, he founded the transition from the old to new Ghanaian aesthethic, which continues to influence form and discourse throughout the African Diaspora.

This quarterly review was founded to revive the scholarship and genre-inquisitiveness of Kofi Antubam. Like him, it aims to intellectualise and codify modern African art forms, and cultural processes that are hitherto taken for granted even by African. At least, facilitate the developemnt a language for describing African artistic innovation. To that end, it will always have an academic bent, and will be furnished by learned commentators, lecturers, and experienced and erudite pratictioners of all art forms. Antubam is designed to be the nexus of critical analysis, art theory, discourse, debate, and therefore a veritable portal for a long overdue renaissance.

SCOPE

FINE ART & DESIGN

LITERATURE / BOOKS

FILM

MUSIC

THEATRE & DANCE

CULTURE

THE ENVIRONMENT

VIDEO PODCASTS

POETRY