Effie Nkrumah

Effie Nkrumah is an energetic and charming multi-hyphenate cultural creative of Ghanaian descent. A contributor in Maxine Beneba Clarke’s Growing up African in Australia anthology, Effie holds an MA in Arts Politics from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Driven by the concept of challenging the single story of Africa through stories of continental Africans in diaspora, Effie creates content that is entertaining, aesthetically pleasing and discussion prompting. Her installation series See What I See has been performed in Sydney, New York, and Accra. Her mission is to ensure people living at the pinpoint of complex intersection, can find a sense of grounding and pride in who they are and a renewed curiosity about who they can be. She identifies and fill gaps, pushing for the authentic, using creative mediums to communicate from her specificity to the world’s universality.