Nii Kwate Owoo
Feature and Documentary Films
Nii Kwate Owoo has over 40 years of film experience as a writer, producer and director of feature and documentary films. He has co-produced and directed "OUAGA'' African Cinema Now!" in 1988 and the first African feature film financed by a major TV Network Channel Four (UK) in 1991 with Dr. Kwesi Owusu. His career highlights include many works like "Odupon Atutu" (Death, Burial and Installation of an Asante King), as well as the internationally acclaimed "Women of Substance" a feature documentary (shot in six African countries for the Africa Women's Development Fund (AWDF), sponsored by the Ford Foundation. He has a long and distinguished track record in academia, having founded the Media Research Unit of the Institute of African Studies University of Ghana, Legon, in 1978.
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Ama: An African Voyage in Discovery
August 22, 2025 | 9:00 AM
A pioneering Afrofuturist film produced and directed by Kwesi Owusu and Nii Kwate Owoo. Written by Kwesi Owusu, Ama is about how a floppy disk becomes a prophetic device through which a young Ghanaian girl (played by Georgina Ackerman) living in England rediscovers her African identity and the eventual consequences for the rest of her family.
The film’s cast includes Anima Misa, Alexandra Duah, Evans Nii Omar Hunter, Georgina Ackerman, Thomas Baptiste, Eddie Tagoe, Roger Griffiths and the Adzido Pan African Dance Ensemble.
It was described by the famous Voice newspaper of London at the time of its release as “The first African film to be shot in London. It goes where no Black British film has ever gone.” The West Africa news magazine also referred to it as: “An arresting spectacle.