Kente cloth, tie-dye Batik patinated by decades — and too often dismissed as frivolous — the press of his mother’s dresses, a sash draped arms-akimbo. Acheampong recasts his parents’ vestiaire as a site of self-formation and communal archive, spun anew. Insisting on the right to retell and repossess Ghanaian traditions, he splices ancestral panache into present tense, bias-cut sartorials staging diachronic duality as patrimony and reinvention alike.

An ongoing collaboration with creatives across the African diaspora, Sankofa enacts a visual praxis — both meditation and manifesto — retrieving what has been left behind to construct a cinematic archive of diasporic imagination. The cadence of portraiture and documentary rigor situates Acheampong within the lineage of Dawoud Bey, J.K. Bruce-Vanderpuije, and Daniel Attoumou Amicchia, while his analog aesthetic leans into unpredictability, letting unforeseen dualities of diasporic experience surface unmediated. Honoring the past, parsing the conjuncture, he reclaims visual agency through collective authorship and a syncretic garb conjoining the contemporary and the ancestral.