Gus Casely-Hayford

Biography

Augustus Lavinus Casely-Hayford (born 1964) is a British curator, cultural historian, broadcaster and lecturer with ancestral Ghanaian roots in the Casely-Hayford family. He is the director of V&A East and was formerly director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in June 2018 for his services to arts and culture. and Professor of Practice at SOAS in 2021.

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