Meet Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, the sculptor behind the 7,000 faces of dead African-American slaves
He wants the world to perceive him as a cultural activist and not only as the sculptor behind the portraits of the millions of victims of transatlantic slavery.
His goal is to sculptor eleven thousand, one hundred and eleven portraits of the dead and life sites that represent the shared pain of the victims of slavery.
Speaking to Face2Face Africa in a telephone interview, Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, a Ghanaian sculptor, said he has only met 10 percent of the project target that seeks to create portraits of Africans trafficked, kidnapped and forced into slavery. Read More...