In the context of the online conference “Public History in Global Perspectives”, Nana Oforiatta Ayim will deliver a closing keynote presentation reflecting on new ecologies of knowledge.
Nana Oforiatta Ayim is a writer, filmmaker, cultural historian, and founder of the ANO Institute of Arts & Knowledge, through which she has pioneered new models of rematriation, cultural institution building and knowledge production across Africa and its diasporas. Her work explores pluralistic epistemologies, indigenous knowledge systems, museums, archives, and the ways in which histories are remembered, transmitted, and reimagined across generations. She is the creator of the Cultural Encyclopaedia, a digital platform dedicated to mapping and sharing African cultural knowledge, and is currently developing ANO University of Arts & Knowledge as a space for regenerative learning, cultural remembrance, and new ecologies of knowledge.