# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-akomfrah
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:03:26.968Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-akomfrah"
name: "John Akomfrah"
slug: "john-akomfrah"
description: "Sir John Akomfrah is a Ghanaian-born British artist, writer, film director, screenwriter, theorist and curator of Ghanaian descent, whose \"commitment to a radicalism both of politics and of cinematic form finds expression in all his films\"."
tagline: "Ghanaian-born British artist, writer, film director, screenwriter, theorist and curator (born 1957)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Akomfrah_interview%2C_Artes_Mundi_7%2CCardiff%2C_20_October_2016.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1957-05-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.01
  momentum:             1.132743362831858
  historical:           9.245288
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0015497/"
    handle:    "nm0015497"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.smokingdogsfilms.com"
sources:
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    title: "John Akomfrah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D9%85%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%87"
    title: "جون اكومفراه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://dag.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Akomfrah"
    title: "John Akomfrah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Akomfrah"
    title: "John Akomfrah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Akomfrah"
    title: "John Akomfrah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Akomfrah"
    title: "John Akomfrah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Akomfrah"
    title: "John Akomfrah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gpe.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Akomfrah"
    title: "John Akomfrah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Akomfrah"
    title: "John Akomfrah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Akomfrah"
    title: "John Akomfrah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3809030"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1037329"
    title: "John Akomfrah"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump