This Research Edition supports the ongoing curatorial study Reflexive Tema and Global Elsewheres. initiated in 2021 by Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh and Ato Annan. Its point of departure is the Tema Printing Press in Ghanas First Republic (1960-1966) in relation to practices of architecture, art, and archives in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The Edition, which forms part of the project Entangled Internationalism, pieces together fragments of the incomplete story of the Tema Press and its relevance to Kwame Nkrumahs republican vision for an industrialized Ghana, using a montage of archival and declassified materialsincluding reports, memos, letters, maps, newspaper clippings, and photos. The second part of the book features Annans artistic exploration of Ghanas presence in the Münzkabinett coin collection at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Dresden State Art Collections). Kwasi OheneAyeh is a curator/critic based in Kumasi, Ghana, and a key member of blaxTARLINES. Ato Annan is an artist and codirector of the Foundation for Contemporary Art Ghana.

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