MANJU Journal Is Putting The Spotlight On Ghana’s Artists With New Art Book

There is no denying it’s been a big year for Ghanaian artists. Influencing the worlds of art and fashion, this year alone photographer Sarno Emmanuel Annor’s vivid portraits have been featured in the pages of Vogue and Campbell Addy hosted his first solo show featuring work he’s created for SHOWstudio’s boundary-breaking project Bodies of Knowledge. Looking to further shine the spotlight on Ghana’s pioneering creatives, MANJU Journal are publishing their first art book, Voices, Ghana’s Artists In Their Own Words.

Featuring 80 Ghanian visual artists, the first-of-its-kind publication looks to celebrate the artists at the heart of the nation’s creative community, including Addy, Annor, Gideon Appah, Annan Affote and more. While inspiring imagery is abound with curated portfolios from photographers, painters, illustrators, film makers, curators, sculptors and more, the book will also feature exclusive interviews unpacking thought-provoking themes of community and diaspora.

‘Instead of being another outsider viewpoint of African art, our book has been created to be a first-person document of the current art scene in my country as told by those within the community,’ explains MANJU Journal founding director Richmond Orlando Mensah. ‘It’s really important to me to help foster an ongoing conversation between the continent and the diaspora. And this should be as expansive as possible, in order to create space for us to learn from each other without being filtered by an external gaze’.

Voices, Ghana’s Artists In Their Own Words, is now available for pre-order twentyfourthirtysix.com to be published in September.