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Fowota Mortoo is a cultural geographer, writer, and visual artist. Her essays and visual works can be found in The Funambulist, Disegno Journal, and you are here: the journal of creative geography. Earlier this year, she was selected for a month-long curatorial and research residency program with Raw Material Company in Dakar, Senegal and in 2024, she was selected by The World Around as one of 25 under 25 Young Climate Prize awardees globally for her photography and Eʋe language project Mapping Keta.
Her work engages with the early post-independence period in West Africa, and considers how our work in the present can take up the unfinished work of emancipation by creating cultural spaces that inspire different possibilities for how we conceive of our collective histories and relation with the natural world. Within the discipline of geography, she situates her creative and academic work in relation to Black Geographies, a framework that examines how we might engage with Black spatial and ecological practices on their own terms. Her interest in the encounter of architecture and Black Geographies has animated her current project centered on the proposed redesign of a library that was formerly a colonial courthouse in the coastal town of Keta in southeastern Ghana.