Blank Slate Monument Project

Kwame Akoto-Bamfo is a versatile Ghanaian artist who is known for his work Nkyinkyim Installation/Museum, cultural activism and contributions to Ghanaian tertiary institutions and traditional communities.

His outdoor sculpture “Nkyinkyim Installation,” dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Transatlantic slave trade, is on display at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama. The work is directly connected to a larger installation of the same name made up of over 1,500 portraits of Africans in the Diaspora.

This StoryMap was created by a group of Rice University students to celebrate the arrival of the Blank Slate Monument to its campus. The movement of this work throughout the United States is a groundbreaking project and we hope to document its journey and the conversations it brings to each of the locations it visits. The StoryMap will be updated with more content as the monument continues its journey.