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To mark this event, talked to Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, an artist, educator and the founder of the Nkyinkyim Museum in Ghana, a space dedicated to visual archiving of African history and African Heritage.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The head sculptures at the Nkyinkyim Museum in Ghana are meant to commemorate all those enslaved Africans who drowned in the Atlantic Ocean during slavery and were not mentioned, to remember them and to give them proper African respect, the founder of the installation told.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In fact, one of the major reasons why I started creating the heads was to commemorate all of these enslaved Africans who were not mentioned, commemorated and giving the proper African respect,&#8221; Kwame Akoto-Bamfo said.He added that the number of sculptures in the Nkyinkyim installation has been changing since its inception in 2009, as he &#8220;creating and expanding on that body of work, so it&#8217;s currently over, 2500, concrete sculptures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe inspiration is from traditional icon, funerary art, a kind of traditional African funerary art, and rituals. 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