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 restore the artistic scholarship and genre-inquisitiveness that Kofi Antubam exemplified. Like him, it aims to intellectualise and codify modern African art forms, and cultural processes that are have hitherto been taken for granted even by Africans. At least, facilitate the development of a language for describing African artistic innovation. To that end, it will always have a medium to highbrow bent, featuring brilliant contributions by learned commentators, lecturers, and experienced and erudite partitioners of all art forms. In essence, Antubam is designed to be the nexus of critical analysis, art theory, discourse, debate, and a veritable portal for a long overdue renaissance.

SCOPE

FINE ART & DESIGN
LITERATURE / BOOKS
FILM
MUSIC
THEATRE & DANCE
CULTURE
THE ENVIRONMENT
VIDEO PODCASTS
POETRY
PROSE