In Conversation | Artist Ibrahim Mahama and Author Sarah Ladipo Manyika on IN DEPENDENCE

Internationally acclaimed artist Ibrahim Mahama in conversation with best-selling novelist, Sarah Ladipo Manyika. Our guests will discuss the intersection of their works in Mahama’s 2016 installation inspired by Manyika’s debut novel In Dependence.

Ibrahim Mahama (b.1987) in Tamale Ghana is an artist who lives and works in Accra, Kumasi and Tamale, Ghana. He started his practice through his interest in the history of materials and architecture. His work is currently at the 22nd Sydney Biennale. He finished a year’s residency with the DAAD in Berlin in 2018. In march 2019 he opened SCCA Tamale, which is an artist-run space, built and dedicated to retrospectives of practices that emerged from the 20thcentury. His current interests are using specific architectural forms within history in the formation of spaces inspired by the potentialities and failures of modernity.

Sarah Ladipo Manyika was raised in Nigeria and has lived in Kenya, France, Zimbabwe, and England. Sarah is a novelist, short story writer, and essayist and founding books editor for Ozy.com. Her debut novel, In Dependence, is an international bestseller while her second novel, Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun, has been translated into a number of languages. Her nonfiction includes personal essays and intimate profiles of people she meets from Mrs. Harris and Pastor Evan Mawarire to Toni Morrison and Michelle Obama. Sarah previously served on MoAD’s board and currently serves as Board Director for the women’s writing residency, Hedgebrook.