EP #52 | Sunday, September 15th featuring Selorm Attikpo (SelormJay) in conversation with Joycelyn Wilson.  

ADAMA Arts Salon is a series of conversations featuring contemporary artists, curators, scholars, and more from across the African Diaspora.

Join us for ADAMA's upcoming in-person Arts Salon. Joycelyn Wilson to moderate a conversation with artist and hip hop archivist Selorm Attikpo (SelormJay). The conversation will center around the African and diasporic hip hop scene with a special focus on the American South and Ghana.                                                                                       

About Moderator: Joycelyn Wilson is an integrative curriculum designer, cultural studies educator, and faculty of Hip Hop Studies and Digital Media at Georgia Tech. She is the founder of the HipHop2020 Innovation Archive, an ed-tech start-up inspired by hip hop culture's intersections with the art of teaching and learning. Wilson has contributed commentary to MSBNC, Netflix's Hip Hop Evolution, VH1's ATL Rise, and TV-One's UnSung. Her work, currently, sits at the intersection of education and cultural politics, with an emphasis on the critical design natures of Black music, performance, and maker culture - as impacted by hip hop in the American South. 

Selorm Attikpo (SelormJay): As a freelance, self-taught photographer, filmmaker, Archivist and producer based in Ghana and France, Selorm documented the hip hop scene in Accra and internationally for over a decade. Selorm is the Founder and Creatove Director of yoyo tinz, an organization that promotes, archives and develops hip hop culture in Africa and organized Ghana’s first hip hop festival in 2018. He continues to build strong relationships with recording artists and provides consitent advising services.