Dear Home of Scars

Artist Ibrahim Mahama returns to Tamale, Ghana, to build an installation from old colonial train carriages, confronting the 'scars' left by extraction.

An intimate look at a major artist turning colonial wreckage into a living cultural space.

In Dear Home of Scars, the famous artist Ibrahim Mahama returns to his hometown of Tamale in northern Ghana. He is working on a new installation featuring old colonial train carriages and a reconstructed section of track

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