About me
Anita Afonu is an award winning documentary filmmaker with over a decade of experience in directing and producing films that explore the hidden histories and everyday lives of people in West Africa. She earned her Bachelors Degree in Film and Television Production from the National Film and Television Institute, NAFTI in 2010.
Her work has screened at the Eugene Film Festival, Herb Alpert School of Music (UCLA), University of Michigan, University of Oxford, Dak’Art Bienniale and the Ljubljana Biennale.
Anita is part of a new generation of African artists who are creatively reckoning with their nations’ pasts in order to understand the political and social realities of the present. Apart from filmmaking, she has a deep interest in the film archives of her country, Ghana and has passionately advocated for the repatriation of Ghana’s Film Archives.