Name: Okaidja Afroso
Start: 2022-11-11T19:30:00
Location: Stanford University

Okaidja Afroso

Okaidja Afroso Ensemble

Stanford Live

Tony and Grammy Award–winner Renée Elise Goldsberry gained stardom as part of the original Broadway cast of Hamilton. Now Renée and her complement of backup singers will have the audience on its feet, stomping and clapping to a high-energy, nondenominational spiritual journey reminiscent of a good old-fashioned revival.

Renée Elise Goldsberry

Stanford University

In this can’t-miss multimedia experience, Ghanaian composer Okaidja Afroso conjures images and sounds of a life in tune with the water. With skillful musicianship and attunement to the gifts of generations past, Jaku Mumor taps into the ancestral rites and rituals of the ocean. Drawing from the ecological knowledge of the Indigenous Gadangme fishermen of Ghana’s Atlantic Gulf of Guinea, Afroso grapples with what it means to commune with the spirits of the sea in the face of climate change and modernization.