Hi. I'm Kofi.
Independent curator and critic based between Liverpool and Accra. I write about African and diaspora art — what gets shown, what doesn't, and why that question keeps mattering.
Selected work
Elsewhere
Eight artists across five sites in Liverpool, examining how African artists construct ideas of home and migration without romanticising either shore. None of them first-time exhibitors in the UK; all of them here because the work demanded it.
Art After the Empire
Conversations with artists, curators, and writers at the edges of the mainstream. The premise: the institutional frameworks we inherited from the twentieth century are not neutral. I talk to people building something different anyway.
The Curatorial Gaze
A collection of essays on the politics of display, written over ten years. Some of the best arguments I've ever had with myself are in here.
Essays
Notes
On institutional time
Institutions move at the speed of their committees. Artists move at the speed of their work. The gap between those two tempos is where most of the friction lives.
A question I keep coming back to
Who is the contemporary African art market actually for? Not rhetorically — I mean: if you traced the money, where does it start and where does it land?
The personal site as refusal
Having a place online that isn't beholden to an algorithm feels like a small act of resistance. I'm trying to take it seriously.
Get in touch
Available for curatorial consultation, critical writing, and speaking. Response time is honest — I'm usually between institutions or on a deadline.