M. Amah Edoh

A wanderer trained as a cultural anthropologist, M. Amah Edoh is developing a mixed-media practice through which she explores Black and African being in the world, memory, and place-making. Her emerging creative writing fits into that broader practice, which is anchored in a self-reflexive approach and includes auto-ethnography, memoir, and work with family photo archives.

Amah’s video work includes the installation “En mémoire de notre chère et regrettée” (In memory of our dearly departed) (2021) and the documentary “A Piece of Home” (2012), and in 2021, she co-curated the exhibition Travail de mémoire (Memory work) in Lomé, Togo. Amah is co-founder of the African Futures Lab (AfaLab), a Brussels-based nonprofit that supports movements for historical and contemporary racial justice across Europe and Africa, and co-host of the Future Perfect | Futur Antérieur podcast. Prior to co-founding AfaLab in 2022, Amah was Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at MIT, from which she also holds a PhD. Amah is Togolese-American and, in addition to the United States, she has lived in West Africa, Southern Africa, and Western Europe. She currently lives in Brussels, though her people and her belongings are scattered along the shores of the Atlantic. You can check out some of Amah’s writing here and here.

Relevant Links: 

• African Futures Lab 

• Future Perfect Podcast 

• Travail de memoire expo