Credits

Project Directors

Catherine Foley
Candace M. Keller
Amowi Sutherland Phillips
Esi Sutherland-Addy

Accra Team

Yvonne Maura Appiah (Conservation Lead)
Kofi Amankwa Asihene (Metadata Lead)
Edem Azumah (Conservation Technician)
Kwame Crentsil (Project Manager)
Emmanuel Kofi Quist-Haynes (Metadata Technician)
Namata Serumaga-Musisi (Metadata Lead)

Accra Team Support Staff

Cephas Agyekum
Maame Amoah-Marfo
Gameli Hamelo

Accra Team - Interns

Kingsley Darkwah
Caroline Elemawusi Dordunu
Jefferson Emmanuel Obudai
Stephanie Solomon
Ama Benewaa Tawiah

MSU/Matrix Team

Liam Bordoni (Undergraduate Researcher)
Nicholos Daniel (Graduate Researcher)
Anthony D'Onofrio (Lead Developer)
Jeff Goeke-Smith (Systems Architect)
Alicia Sheill (Data Remediation Specialist)
Mahalet Tolliver (Undergraduate Researcher)
Austin Truchan (Designer)

Consultant Specialists in Ghana

Ivan Addae-Mensah - former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana and a knowledge consultant for the World Health Organization and UNESCO.

Kwasi Gyan-Apenteng - veteran journalist, former Chairman of the National Media Commission of Ghana, and former President of the Ghana Association of Writers.

George Hagan - former Director of the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana.

Samuel Ntewusu - Director of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana and an expert in archival studies.

Irene Odotei - former Director of the Institute of African Studies at UG, and a senior Fellow of the International Institute for the Advanced Study of Cultures.

Ralph Sutherland - architect, artist and Bell's protégé.

Nii Adjiri Wellington - retired architectural scholar, architect, and author.

Other Contributors

Gilbert Amegatcher
Richard Amoani
Benady Otu Ansah
Elizabeth Asafo Agyei
Allotey Bruce-Konuah
Adeline Ama Buabeng
Kojo Derban

Advisory Committee

Damarice Amao - historian of photography and curator in the Photography Department of the Musée Nationale d'art moderne/Centre Pompidou in Paris, France.

Alex Nichols - photographer and Director of the Visual Resources Library at MSU.

Judith Opoku-Boateng - Head Archivist at the J.H.K. Nketia Archive at the Institute of African Studies and Vice-President of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives.

Nii Otokunor Quarcoopome - curator of African Art & Department Head, Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas at the Detroit Institute of Arts. His expertise is in Ghanaian art and history.

Aaron K. Steele - photographer and conservation imaging specialist in the Conservation Department at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA).

Odile Tevie - Director of the Nubuke Foundation in Accra, Ghana, an internationally acknowledged arts institution driving engagement with Ghanaian artists locally and globally.

Special Thanks

Emily S. Fertik (Public Diplomacy Counselor, U.S. Embassy Accra)
Regina Hagan (Resource Coordinator, Public Affairs, US Embassy, Accra)
Rachel Phillips (Consultant, Mmofra Foundation)

Previous Phases

Project Management

Modern Endangered Archives Program, UCLA. 2022-2023

Kwame Crentsil
Esi Sutherland Addy
Amowi Sutherland Phillips

Peck-Stacpoole / Friends of Mmofra Partnership 2019 - 2020

Elisabeth Efua Sutherland
Esi Sutherland-Addy
Amowi Sutherland Phillips

German Goethe-Institut Partnership, 2005 - 2008

Alf Bremer
Esi Sutherland-Addy
Eleonore Sylla

Spokane Community College Partnership 2000

Ira Gardner
Amowi Sutherland Phillips

Teams

Modern Endangered Archives Program, UCLA 2022-2023

Desmond Kojo Akosah-Koduah
Richard Amoani
Yvonne Maura Appiah
Edem Azumah
Ama Darkoa
Karen Koomson
Namata Serumaga-Musisi
Dede Sutherland -Addy
Ohenewa Williams

Peck-Stacpoole / Friends of Mmofra Partnership 2019-2020

Budu Afful
Desmond Kojo Akosah-Koduah
Amarkwei Armah
Amartey Armar
James Brown
Bessie Djangmah
Janna Hütterbräucker
Mary Jonah
Seton Nicholas
Alina Veeser

German Goethe-Institut Partnership, 2005 - 2008

Budu Afful
Astra Amedume
Abdulai Awudu
Sophia Baisie
Abiko Banchi-Eghagha
Jasper Dafeamekpor
Alsaundra Hadley
Redina Hanson
Christof Janitschek
Patrick Springer

Consultants

Modern Endangered Archives Program, UCLA. 2022-2023

Catherine Foley
Candace M. Keller
Alex Nichols
Samuel Ntewusu
Rachel Phillips
Aaron Steele

Peck-Stacpoole / Friends of Mmofra Partnership 2019 - 2020

Barbara Loste

German Goethe-Institut Partnership, 2005 - 2008

Gisela Harich-Hamburger
Henry Ofori
Francis Nii Yartey
J.V.L Phillips