Vincent Akwete Kofi

Vincent Akwete Kofi nyɛla bɛ ni dɔɣi yuuni 1923 ka o daa kani yuuni 1974 ni, o daa nyɛla Ghana  artist ni  modernist sculpture, ka o nuchee ni tuma ŋɔ nyɛ din jendiri  Pan-Africanism mini decolonization. O kpaŋmaŋ ni o tuma daa che ka niribi mi o ni "Ghana's most important sculptor".

 Early life and education 
Vincent Akwete Kofi nyɛla bɛ ni dɔɣi so tinŋ yuli booni Odumasi-Krobo, Ghana tingban ni silimiingoli  January bɛɣu pinaayɔbu dali yuuni 1923 ni.

O nyɛla ŋun bɔhim o nuuzuɣu baŋsim shikuru yuli booni  Achimota College , din daa nyɛ shikuru shɛli din art daa mali yaa  West Africa tingbani. 

O lan nyɛla ŋun daa lan chaŋ shikuru yuli booni  Royal College of Art, London (1952–1955), ka lan chaŋ Columbia University, New York (1959). Lala saha ŋɔ  America tingban ni, o daa nyɛla ŋun go n chaŋ yaɣi shɛli bɛ ni mi ni Barnett-Aden Gallery la nti pahi  Alonzo Aden ŋun daa kpa lala yaɣili ŋɔ. O daa nyɛla   painter Alex Fournier ni peenti so .

Saha shɛli o ni daa be  New York, o daa bɔhinla  metal casting , ka ŋun daa sɔŋɔ di polo nyɛ  Harmon Foundation, produced a film on bronze casting.

 Career and experience 
Kofi Tuma nim daa nyɛla din kuli jeniri Africa mini Europe yaɣa. O daa nyɛla ŋun daa tuugi n tumdi art tuma din jendi dari polo ka o lala tuma nyɛ din daa kuli yɛri gbansabila daadaa bɛhisi.

Kofi di daa ti labina Ghana, o daa nyɛla ŋun leegi chicha n wuhi bikura shikuru yuli booni  Winneba Teacher Training College (1961–1969) ka daa nyɛ ŋun nyɛ kpem n zaŋti Fine Art at the College of Art, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Kumasi (1969–1974).

Sculpture nim kamani Awakening Africa, Crucifix ni  Blackman's Stoicism zaa nyɛla  Kofi ni daa kuli zaŋ o Zaɣa n niŋ shɛli ni ka di jendiri Pan-Africanism mini decolonization yaɣa.

Kofi mini  Ghana textile artist ŋun yuli booni  Charlotte Hagan ŋun daa nyɛ  co-owned  nti  Kofhag Art Mart gallery and studio la .

Kofi daa nyɛla ŋun be Ghana  delegation din daa niŋ  First World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar tingban ni yuuni  1966 mini yuuni  1971 puuni la,  o daa nyɛla ŋun kpuɣi naponŋ n chanŋ  India tingbani ni at the invitation of the Government.

 Influence 
Felix Eboigbe tuma nyɛla  Kofi ni zaŋ shɛli taɣimalisi  n niŋ o  sculptural dynamism yaɣa ni . El Anatsui daa nyɛla ŋun kpa zaa lɛhiri  Kofi tuma ka tumda,n ti pahi shabi kamani Oku Ampofo ni  Kofi Antubam, bɛ ni daa zaɣiairi tinduya ni tuma nim tumbu ni ka kuli zaŋla bɛ zuɣu vuli gban sabila tuma polo.

US Government officials nim zilinli zuɣu , Kofi daa nyɛla Ghana artist ŋun daa nyɛ duniya zaa ni mi yuma 1970s polo.

 Personal life 
Kofi paɣa n nyɛ  Felicia Korkor Djabatey (before 1946), in Krobo, Kwaebibirem, Eastern, Ghana. Bɛ nyɛla ban dɔɣi bipuɣingi yuli booni Janet Ayerko Kofi.  Kofi nyɛla ŋun daa kana silimiingoli July bɛɣu pihita ni yini dali yuuni 1974 ni .

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Category:1923 births
Category:1974 deaths
Category:Alumni of Achimota School
Category:Ghanaian male sculptors
Category:Columbia University alumni
Category:Academic staff of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Category:20th-century Ghanaian sculptors