John Akomfrah OBE, CBE was born in Accra, Ghana in 1957 and immigrated to the UK with his family in 1966, following the Ghanaian coup by the National Liberation Council (NLC). He studied sociology at Portsmouth Polytechnic, graduating in 1982; in the same year he co-founded the Black Audio Film Collective, followed by Smoking Dogs Films in 1998. His work investigates memory, post-colonialism, temporality and the experiences of the global migrant diaspora.

Listen to his story here or read the full biography on the BURU:

https://www.buru.org.uk/contributor/john-akomfrah