The Nubuke Foundation @ 20: A Conversation about Building and Sustaining an Arts Institution for Ghana to the World with Odile Tevie

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In this week’s change agent conversation we’re visiting with Odile Tevie, co-founder and director of Nubuke Foundation, a visual arts and cultural institution, based in Accra and Wa in Ghana.

In the early 2000’s she set up and ran the Black Swan gallery in London introducing Ghanaian, Togolese and Nigerian artists into the diaspora. Under her vision and drive, Nubuke Foundation, set up in 2006, has become an internationally acknowledged arts institution whose robust and engaging programming calendar has been seminal in supporting the career of many of the mid-career Ghanaian artists and promising ones like Na Chainkua Reindorf, Isaac Opoku and Gideon Appah.

Nubuke Foundation has become a creative community hub in the city of Accra, where informal learning programmes, talks, exhibitions, drama, spoken word etc. In Wa, the Foundation focuses on promoting strip weaving artisans and textile and fibre-based arts practice.

As you'll hear our surround sound is the long story of the raining season in Ghan and it was well worth the rainy commute to have this conversatio with Odile.

Where to find Odile?
On LinkedIn
On Instagram
On Facebook

What’s Odile reading?
African Women & Feminism by Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
The 28th February House by Demi Letsa
The Longest Week by Nick Page

Other topics of interest:
A bit about Tesano in Accra
The Wa Upper West Region, Ghana
Ghana A Portrait
About the University of Applied Arts Vienna
More about Ghana's Centers for National Culture
About Sensibilités intellectuelles africaines in The Conversation
What is the Myriad Alliance?