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Multidisciplinary
Artist & Writer
Akwi Nji is a Cameroonian American artist creating in words, performance, and visual arts. While engaging in a successful artist career, Akwi is also in high demand as a speaker & consultant.
The what of her
art & words
Akwi was born in Iowa City, Iowa, and raised in Cameroon, Africa. Her experiences as a Cameroonian and Cameroonian American inform her work as she explores the intersections of gender, parenthood, race, tensions between "outsider" and "insider", and concepts of geographical and spiritual home.
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