In 2023, Beata America, a curator for the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa , made a research trip to Ghana. Accompanied by her colleague Julia Kabat, America ended up visiting the Accra studio of Zohra Opoku , a Ghanaian German artist whom Zeitz MOCAA director Koyo Kouoh “had always spoken really highly of,” as America recalled to ARTnews . Despite having never met Opoku before, America “just fell in love with her studio practice immediately,” the curator recalled. America and the rest of the team at Zeitz MOCAA “really tried to figure out a way that we could engage with Zohra’s work more,” she said. “So when the time came to look at the exhibition schedule and look at prospective shows, her name easily came up for me for a solo exhibition.” Related Articles That show ended up becoming Opoku’s first museum survey , which opened in September at Zeitz MOCAA.…