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Ekow Eshun on the Black superhero who came to his rescue in mid-seventies Britain

When I was two years old, my family moved from London, where I was born, to Accra, Ghana.

The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure edited by Ekow Eshun celebrates flourishing Black artists whose work illuminates the richness.

Ekow Eshun has been many things over his career of more than twenty years.

A regular cultural commentator on TV and radio, his Orwell Prize-nominated book Black Gold Of The Sun tells of his journey from England to Ghana in search.

Ekow Eshun, a writer and curator based in London, is the author of Africa State of Mind: Contemporary Photography Reimagines a Continent ().

He is a Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Scholar-in-Residence, a Center for Curatorial Leadership Mellon Seminar Member, a University of California.

We lived there for three years – not very long – but enough time for Ghana, through my child’s eyes, to take on the heightened reality of a dream. Even today I think of the huge jars of palm nut oil, glowing cadmium orange, sold by women at the side of the road.

And the open drains at the edge of the pavement, their entropic scent and the terror of falling into the stream of iridescent green slurry that ran through them. The moon after dark, large and low, brilliant as a star, its light reflecting in our eyes, turning our pupils silver, bright and glowing.

At dusk one evening I looked up and saw a bat flying overhead. I spotted another, and more, and then the sky was filled with them, flapping ungainly, swarming into the gathering darkness to feed on heedless insects.

Returning to London was disconcerting.