Aseye Tamakloe, director of the documentary 'When Women Speak'
'When Women Speak' traces the stories of 16 Ghanaian women who came of age in the 1960s and 1970s. It follows their experiences (as told in their own words) as Ghana passed through periods of military, single-party and multi-party rule. These women were prominent in public life – in the law, the media, academia, politics, and various governmental and non-governmental organisations for women. Their stories tell us about the issues around which women mobilised, and their modes of activism and advocacy at home and abroad, during the ‘lost decades’. They challenge the popular perception that gender activism is a foreign import, which came from ‘the West’ and found its way to Ghana with the restoration of multi-party democracy in 1992.
Aseye Tamakloe is a film director from Ghana, a lecturer at the University of Media, Arts & Communication (UniMAC) in Accra, and a PhD candidate at the University of Ghana. She is also a freelance film festival programmer and curator. She is a co-programmer for Film Africa, London’s biggest celebration of African and African diaspora cinema presented by the Royal African Society and was the Festival Manager of the European Film Festival, Ghana. (EUFFGH). Her research areas include, African Cinema(s), popular culture, African Literature and Gender Studies. She is currently a guest at the Africa Centre for Transregional Research (ACT) and the Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute (ABI).
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