On Sunday 1st August 2021, a host of women leaders were honoured for making great impact on Ghanaian society. Nana Ofosuaa Oforiatta Ayim won the ‘woman of the year in Cultural Arts Award
The honourees were selected by an astute board of achievers who used clear and objective criteria in ensuring that the final list comprise the most deserving women in various fields.
In addition to Nana Ofosuaa Oforiatta Ayim, Abena Osei-Poku, the MD of Absa, Doreen Andoh of the Multimedia group, Shirly A. Botchway, the Foreign Affairs Minister, actress Akofa Edjeani and the artiste Becca were also honoured.
Nana Oforiatta Ayim who is a writer, Film maker and Art historian and the Founder of the ANO Institute of Arts and Knowledge through which she has pioneered a Pan-African culture encyclopedia, a mobile museums project and curated Ghana’s first pavilion at the Venice Biennale received ‘woman of the year in art and cultural’ award.
Nana Oforiatta has made award-winning films for museums such as Tate Modern, LACMA and the new museum and also lectures a course on history and theory at the architectural association in London. She published her first novel ‘The God Child’ with Bloomsbury in 2019 and with Penguin in Germany in 2021.
She is already the recipient of various awards and honours, having been named one of the Apollo ’40 under 40’; a Quartz Africa Innovator in 2017; one of African women history in 2016 and one of 100 women of 2020 by Okayafica.
Nana received the 2015 Art and Technology Award from LACMA; the 2016 AIR award, which “seeks to honour and celebrate extraordinary African artists who are committed to producing provocative, innovative and socially-engaging work”; a 2018 Soros Arts Fellowship, was a 2018 Global South visiting fellow at Oxford University, was also appointed to the Advisory Council of Oxford University, Cultural Programme in 2020, was a Principal Investigator on the Action for Restitution to Africa Programme.
Source: 3news
