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“Ghana Airways was born out of a desire to ask difficult questions about national identity, African national identities, their ingredient, the chaos of their formation, and their fracturing heritage, all through the music. In Ghana Airways we wanted to achieve an idiosyncratic vision of identity shaped by my lived experience, traced through knowledge of the nation-state preserved in archival material. It was fueled by a burning curiosity about the facets that stitch my minority perspective within the wider fabric that is modern-day Ghana.”
– Hakeem Adam, Author, to Docubase
In a three-part audio work and installation, media artist Hakeem Adam explores post colonial Ghanaian identity through “things in which I can hear myself.” He explains that he finds himself contemplating his Ghanian identity whenever he is in an airport.
Combining music, historical recordings of speeches, news clips, advertising jingles and ambient sound, he creates “a sonic patchwork that captures the character of a country that is itself a constructed composite of colonial forces and projected wishes, myths and ideologies,” as written on the IDFA Doclab website. The audio component of the project is accompanied by an installation with three suitcases, each one with a video component displayed in a loop, providing subtle visual hints without distracting from the main audio experience.
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