Anita Afonu graduated from the National Film and Television Institute in 2010 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Her first feature film, Perished Diamonds documents the history of Ghanaian cinema and the effects the loss of its archives has had on the Ghana film industry. In 2014 she received funding from the Goethe Institut-Ghana to document the life and works of Prof. Kwabena Nketia, Africa’s foremost ethnomusicologist.
She is an alumni of the Durban Talent Campus and Berlinale Talent Campus. She was recently a speaker at the IFC Sustainability Exchange held in Cartagena, Colombia in 2017. She is currently a University of Michigan African Presidential Scholar working on the life and funerary rites of the Asantehemaa.