Fibi Afloe

She shoots, she creates, she owns it. BTS from yesterday’s photography class for girls. #womensupportingwomen #womenempowerment #womeninphotography #nima

Photography Training for Young Girls. Tomorrow, 20th April 2025, we are excited to host a special Photography Training Session for young girls at the Nima Community Library (Kawukudi). This is a fun and inspiring opportunity to learn how to take beautiful photos, build confidence behind the camera, and explore creativity through photography. Come ready to learn, create, and capture amazing moments!. All you need is your phone! Flyer design by @ameliekoerbs.photography #GirlsInPhotography #NimaCommunityLibrar. #womeninphotography #goetheinstitutghana #womensupportingwomen #PhotographyTraining #EmpowerGirls #CreativeSkills

Abafa (ba)zi — Those Who Die Knowing opens 6 Dec 2025, 6:00PM at @fca_ghana (W.E.B. DuBois Centre). A traveling exhibition spotlighting African women artists on knowledge and feminism. Features photographer @fibi_afloe , music by @poetra_asantewa , and a panel with Fibi Afloe, Poetra Asantewaa, followed by a panel on preserving women’s narratives. ‼️Disclaimer ‼️: No copyright infringement. All rights and credits are reserved for the rightful owner (s). Photo credits: @ fca_ghana @goetheinstitut_ghana #artevent #artexhibition #KyekyekuleAfrica #africanart #feminism

. 𝗔𝗯𝗮𝗳𝗮(𝗯𝗮)𝘇𝗶 – 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗗𝗶𝗲 𝗞𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 Save the Date — 6th December 2025 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲: 6:00 PM 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲: @fca_ghana (W.E.B. DuBois Centre) We’re excited to welcome you to the opening of 𝗔𝗯𝗮𝗳𝗮(𝗯𝗮)𝘇𝗶 – 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗗𝗶𝗲 𝗞𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 — a traveling exhibition now showing in Ghana. Abafa(ba)zi highlights women artists and photographers from across Africa, each exploring the powerful theme of women and knowledge through visual, sonic, and experiential forms. The exhibition explores the multifaceted ways in which African women have embodied and practised feminism within the context of African society. This Accra edition is made possible through a collaboration between Goethe-Institut Ghana and @fca_ghana . The exhibition features Ghanaian Photographer @fibi_afloe and a music intervention by @poetra_asantewa from her Album For All of Us. At 𝟳:𝟬𝟬 𝗣𝗠, the evening opens with a moving performance by 𝗣𝗼𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗮 𝗔𝘀𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗮, featuring work from her For All of Us album, which centers women’s histories, politics, and lived realities. At 𝟳:𝟯𝟬 𝗣𝗠, we invite you to a thought-provoking panel conversation titled: “𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻’𝘀 𝗡𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴.” 𝗣𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 Fibi Afloe – Photographer Poetra Asantewaa – Artist & Writer Jacqueline Nsiah ( @yaa.abrefi ) – Film Curator Thina Miya - Abafa(ba)zi Curator (virtual attendance) 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿: Lizz Johnson #Accra #Art #Exhibition #Abafa(ba)zi #Abafabazi #Feminism #photography #photoexhibition

On view at Didi Museum till November 28 ✨ Kayanmata, a Hausa term meaning “women’s things”, has become a prominent subject of debate in Ghana’s Muslim neighbourhoods known as the “zongos”. It refers to a wide range of remedies, powders, pills, potions, and accessories originating from northern Nigeria that are used by women to enhance men’s (and sometimes their own) sexual pleasure . While kayanmata has long played a discreet role in married life in Ghana’s zongos, it has recently found a wider audience, circulating among young unmarried girls and women outside the zongos, igniting both curiosity and controversy. This exhibition grew out of a collaborative research project between photographer Fibi Afloe (Nuku Studio, Ghana) and anthropologist Ann Cassiman (University of Leuven, Belgium). It documents the practices, meanings, and moral conversations surrounding kayanmata in Nima, one of Accra’s most vibrant zongos. Within Nima’s expanding networks of sellers and users, kayanmata emerges as a charged terrain where pleasure, morality and power are negotiated. Through deep conversations with married and unmarried women and men, Afloe and Cassiman explore how kayanmata reveals the moral anxieties and dissonances concerning women’s sexuality. The debates surrounding kayanmata are intimately tied to women’s expectations, resistance, and desires within marriage, as well as their fears of infidelity, co-wives entering their homes, or remaining single and being pushed out of the marriage market. The boundaries around women’s lives in the zongos can feel confining, like a kind of social and sexual incarceration. However, beyond the language of trickery, kayanmata creates therapeutic spaces for counselling and sharing, providing women with a renewed sense of femininity, self-making, and agency. It is a testimony to women’s enduring ability to transform constraint into creativity, seizing power in the most intimate corners of their lives. Photography by Fibi Afloe Research by Ann Cassiman and Fibi Afloe Produced by Nii Obodai and Ann Cassiman With gratitude to all contributors, institutions, and the women who shared their stories.

Meet Fibi Afloe Fibi Afloe is a photographer based in Nima, Accra whose community-oriented art traces memories from her lived environment. Her practice is shaped by personal connection and a desire to reflect the everyday experiences of those she photographs, often linking their stories to her own. Her intimate portraits, bricolage architectures and still-lifes emerge from looking and listening for how people and spaces speak. Afloe’s entryway into photography started with attending a coding course for young women, which in a roundabout way, led to being mentored by Ghanaian photographers Francis Kokoroko and later Nii Obodai. She has held solo exhibitions at St. Margaret’s House in London and the Nima Community Library in Accra, and participated in group shows at Nuku Studio, SCCA Tamale and with Tender Photos in Amsterdam. — LagosPhoto 2025 On view till November 29, 2025 At the African Artists’ Foundation space. — #lagosphotofestival #lagos #lagosphoto25 #visualpolitics #photographyasaddress #powerofimages #assumedviewer #ideologicalframing #criticalvisualpractice #alternativepublics #visualagency #reflexiveimagery #politicsofrepresentation

Accra it’s your last chance to see the photo exhibition “KAYANMATA” at the Nima Maamobi Community Learning Center. “KAYANMATA” is a collaborative photo exhibition exploring women’s expectations, desires, and the everyday ethics of womanhood, relationships, and agency in Nima, Accra by anthropologist Ann Cassiman and photographer Fibi Afloe. The exhibition runs only for one more week until May 30th, 2025 at Nima Maamobi Community Learning Center right next to the Ghana National Mosque. The exhibition is open daily from 11 AM to 5 PM. If you haven’t visited yet stop by on any day between 11 am to 5 pm! Also, note that the photographer, Fibi Afloe will be present - the perfect chance to ask your questions and find out more about “Kayanmata”! Photo credits: @fibi_afloe *** Exhibition in Accra Kayanmata 26.04 – 30.05.2025 Researchers Fibi Afloe @fibi_afloe / @storiesfromnima Ann Cassiman @anncassiman Produced by Nii Obodai and Ann Cassiman

“My lens is not distant. It listens. It breathes. It stays. Together with Ann Cassiman, we entered bedrooms, backrooms, and market stalls where the world of kayanmata unfolds — not only as commerce but as quiet resistance, self­making, and the reclaiming of voice and body.” - FIBI AFLOE People in Accra! If you’re around make sure to visit “KAYANMATA” a collaborative photo exhibition exploring women’s expectations, desires, and the everyday ethics of womanhood, relationships, and agency in Nima, Accra by anthropologist Ann Cassiman and photographer Fibi Afloe. The exhibition runs until May 31st, 2025 at Kawukudi Library, Nima, and is open daily from 11 AM to 5 PM. If you haven’t visited yet, there’s still time to stop by, take in the work, and be part of the ongoing conversation. Photo credits: @fibi_afloe *** Exhibition in Accra Kayanmata 26.04 – 31.05.2025 Researchers Fibi Afloe @fibi_afloe / @storiesfromnima Ann Cassiman @anncassiman Produced by Nii Obodai and Ann Cassiman

Accra — thank you for showing up and making the opening of our Kayanmata exhibition at Nima’s Kawukudi Library such a meaningful gathering. It was wonderful to see so many people from the community and beyond come together, despite the rain. Your presence, questions, and conversations made the space come alive in a way that exceeded our expectations. It was a huge pleasure to have men and women of different generations actively participating in the panel discussion. The honesty, reflections, and shared stories reminded us why these spaces matter. And the conversation is by far not over! A huge thank you to everyone who showed up in such high numbers, to Naeima Fafana Ali (@fafanaali ) for so gracefully guiding us through the afternoon, and to our brilliant panelists Mardiya Suleiman Cheiba, @kautharkhamis799 , Binta Alhassan Ibn Kimba, Miftaahu Adam Mohammed @muftyysnr , and Saali Sailuba for such a rich and engaging conversation. To our audience — you brought so much energy, asked bold and thoughtful questions! A heartfelt thank you as well to everyone who worked behind the scenes to make this exhibition possible and the opening so smooth — our two researchers Ann Cassiman & Fibi Afloe, the Nuku Team - and every pair of hands that helped along the way. In the next posts, we’ll be sharing more about the process behind the exhibition and moments from the opening. Kayanmata is a collaborative photo exhibition exploring women’s expectations, desires, and the everyday ethics of womanhood, relationships, and agency in Nima, Accra. The exhibition runs until May 31st, 2025 at Kawukudi Library, Nima, open daily from 11 AM to 5 PM. If you haven’t visited yet, there’s still time to stop by, take in the work, and be part of the ongoing conversation. Photo credits: @ameliekoerbs.photography *** Exhibition in Accra Kayanmata 26.04 – 31.05.2025 Researchers Fibi Afloe @fibi_afloe Ann Cassiman @anncassiman Produced by Nii Obodai and Ann Cassiman

For me, @fibi_afloe ’s exhibition “Kayanmata” with @anncassiman at the Nima Community Library (Kawukudi) is part of a larger, longer story about intergenerational teaching and knowledge-keeping. I know Fibi through the photographer and community mentor Nii Obodai—founder and director of @nukustudio —and I know the Nima Library through Nima Munhinmanchi Art @nimaartgh , where over a decade ago, a group of emerging and elder artists from Nima gathered together to organize youth workshops, mural paintings, and public programming. Nii—together with Nyani Quarmyne, Seton @mitsifantsi , and Fibi’s own Ann—was one of the guest teachers of these workshops 11 years ago, and helped sparked an ongoing segment around photography. Numerous emerging and iconic cultural leaders contributed their intellect and energy to NMA from 2011-2017, some of whom have taken the spirit of community-building to mammoth dimensions. Community is likewise the source of Fibi Afloe’s photography, where her intimacy with her subjects enables her to gain trust in otherwise untouchable arenas. For this body of work around “Kayanmata”—women’s “dark market” medicines that “sweeten” and “spice up” their marriages and relationships—Fibi’s delicate, soft and sensual photography brings out a side of this secretive stuff that might otherwise be difficult to see. Her work with Ann helps shift the conversation from moral judgment toward questions self-making and sexual determination. In every cup, pill, curtain, and outstretched palm, is a story of woman seizing agency in the bedroom. Fibi and Ann open space around these and other questions on Saturday 2:30pm at the Friends of Libraries in Ghana (Kawukudi), where they are joined by activists, advocates and doctors on the topic of contemporary relationships in urban zongos. It is a pleasure to see another mentee of my mentor Nii Obodai step into her voice and her space, and find language and forms for the seemingly unspeakable. Extra love from @robinbethinc , where Fibi is one of a cluster of bright young artists entering into my web of “curious, communal, and alchemical” curating. It is a story that started long before us, which we are honored to step into.

Accra, Accra – mark your calendars for April 26th at 2:30 PM! We’re excited to announce the opening of the “Kayanmata” photo exhibition at the Kawukudi Library, Nima, Accra. Kayanmata is a collaborative research project between photographer Fibi Afloe (Nuku Studio, Ghana) and anthropologist Ann Cassiman (University of Leuven, Belgium), documenting the uses, meanings, and moral conversations around kayanmata in Nima, one of Accra’s most dynamic neighborhoods and the very place where this exhibition will be on show. Kayanmata, which means “women’s things” in Hausa, refers to the many products women use to “sweeten” and “spice up” their marriages. Through this lens, Afloe and Cassiman explore women’s expectations and desires within marriage, delving into themes of self-making, love, female agency, and the everyday ethics of womanhood and relationships. We are delighted to announce the program for the opening, through which MC Naeima Fafana Ali (Club adviser to Rotaract RRC-Global) will guide us: 1.⁠ ⁠Welcome and introduction to “Kayanmata” by Ann Cassiman and Fibi Afloe 2.⁠ ⁠A panel discussion on Kayanmata and its role in contemporary relationships between men and women in the zongos, moderated by Mardiya Suleman Cheiba (Youth Activist), with: * Kauthar Khamis (The Madina Project, University of Utrecht & University of Ghana) * Binta Alhassan Ibn Kimba (Youth Advocate) * Miftaahu Adam Mohammed (Executive Director, Success Book Club & Entrepreneur) * Saali Sailuba (Naturopathic doctor) 3.⁠ ⁠Guided Tour of the Exhibition where we take a closer look at the Kayanmata exhibition together. Drinks and Snacks will be provided to keep us fresh and enjoy the mingling even more! The exhibition and opening event are free and open to all. We look forward to seeing you at the exhibition opening! Photo credits: (1) Vera Acquah @veraacquah ** Exhibition in Accra Kayanmata 26.04 – 10.05.2025 Researchers Fibi Afloe @fibi_afloe / @storiesfromnima Ann Cassiman @anncassiman Produced by Nii Obodai and Ann Cassiman

Accra, Accra: something is cooking! Only two weeks to go until the opening of the photo exhibition "Kayanmata" at the Kawukudi Library, Nima, Accra on the 26th of April at 2.30pm. Nuku Studio is proud to present the collaborative work of anthropologist Ann Cassiman and documentary photographer Fibi Afloe. Since April 2023, the two have been working closely together to explore women's aspirations around marriage in Accra's zongos, combining visual storytelling and anthropological research. After presenting early work-in-progress in Accra and Tamale in April 2024, they deepened their work through further interviews and meetings with women in Nima. Now, their findings will be presented in the final photo exhibition: "Kayanmata". The exhibition will open with a special event during which Ann and Fibi will be in conversation with youth activists, researchers, kayanmata traders, and women and men from Nima. Together, they will discuss kayanmata and how it reflects changing gender relations, ideas about love, marriage, female agency and community. In addition, the audience will be able to take a look behind the scenes of this project. The Kayamata exhibition and opening event are free and open to all. Mark your calendars and spread the word — we can’t wait to see you there. Ann Cassiman is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Leuven (Belgium). Her research focuses on young women in Muslim migrant communities (zongos) in Accra, Ghana. She explores themes such as friendship, apprenticeship and knowledge, care and kinship, love, marriage, and what it means to inhabit a zongo in terms of processes of othering and citizenship. Fibi Afloe is a documentary photographer based between in Nima, Accra and Tamale. Her work focuses on everyday life, intimate portraiture, and social themes such as gender, climate change, and culture. Deeply rooted in community engagement, Fibi’s practice is shaped by personal connection and a desire to reflect the lived experiences of those she photographs. Video credits: @ameliekoerbs.photography Researchers: @fibi_afloe , @anncassiman Produced by: Nii Obodai and Ann Cassiman