- Following 7.5K
- Followers 15.8K
- Engagement 1.88%
- Avg likes 305
- Avg comments 32
About Adama Delphine Fawundu
Adama Delphine Fawundu (@adamadelphine) is an Artist creator on Instagram, also filed under Art & DIY. The account has 15,820 followers and 3,703 published posts. Recent posts average 305 likes and 32 comments, an engagement rate of 1.88%.
With 15.8K followers, Adama Delphine Fawundu is a micro creator by the common 10,000 to 100,000 definition. Adama Delphine Fawundu follows 7,512 accounts, so the audience is roughly 2.1 times the size of the list followed. Adama Delphine Fawundu uses an Instagram professional account. Flinque files Adama Delphine Fawundu under Artist, with Art & DIY as a secondary category.
The Instagram bio for Adama Delphine Fawundu runs to 16 words across 5 lines. The bio mentions @mfonfoto, @hesse_flatow, @indigoartsalliance and @penumbrafoundation. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Adama Delphine Fawundu dates from October 2026.
3,703 Posts
Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Adama Delphine Fawundu, 7 are videos, 2 are carousels and 1 is a single image. That mix leans toward videos. With 3,703 posts published, Adama Delphine Fawundu's archive runs well past the 2,000 mark. Against the audience, that is roughly 4.3 followers for each post published. All 10 carry captions, averaging 133 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include work, fawundu’s, process, water and through. The captions tag #sankofa, #columbiaalum and #indigo.
September asked me to remember and to revisit my past — people, places, and presumption that shaped me — to get to where I’m going next. September asked me do to it scared. It asked me “do you return to a thing the same way you left it, and is that thing the same, after some time away?” September answered #Sankofa 🫶🏾🪽
Fun fact: Professor Mamdani was my thesis advisor in graduate school at. I hadn’t seen him since 2009 (even though we even live in the same neighborhood in Kampala)! Seeing him again and getting my book signed was a definite September highlight. We also have the same book designer, 🔥
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#ColumbiaAlum and Assistant Professor Adama Delphine Fawundu ’18 joined Professors Farah Jasmine Griffin and Shana L. Redmond for a conversation about her creative process, Kpoto Patchwork, and the work behind her stunning exhibition.
Thanks to everyone who joined us for an evening of art, conversation, and community!
’We be the luminous blues…’ is now on view in the lobby of the Lenfest Center for the Arts. Stop by and see it for yourself!
Fawundu’s "Sîmba 2 we blood, air, and water—recycled through time’s endless loop. hear the rhythm. step forward—for all who came and all to come" (2025) and "Ngewo Whispers" (2023) join the Museum’s collection, bringing together layered histories, ancestral memory, natural elements, and materials gathered across continents and generations.
From antique quilts and Kuba cloth to cowrie shells, raffia, healing herbs, salt from the Great Salt Lake, and elements of water, wind, and sunshine from Kinshasa, Freetown, Salt Lake City, Bahia, and Lagos, Fawundu’s practice creates a deeply interconnected visual language of place, memory, and belonging.
Images: Adama Delphine Fawundu, "Sîmba 2 we blood, air, and water—recycled through time’s endless loop. hear the rhythm. step forward—for all who came and all to come," 2025. Archival pigment, cyanotypes, acrylic paint, kalaba, mabele chalk on cotton canvas. Antique Quilt from Salt Lake City. Handmade banana leaf with jute pulp paper. Healing herbs, Kuba cloth, raffia (congo, brazil, sierra leone), copper, salt from the Great Salt Lake, cobalt blue bottles, palm fibers, calabash from congo and brazil. Clay beads from Bahia. Cowrie Shells from Brazil, Nigeria, Congo, Sierra Leone. Feathers (turkey, pheasant). Elements of water, wind and sunshine from Kinshasa, Congo, Freetown, Sierra Leone, Salt Lake City, Utah, Bahia, Brazil and Lagos, Nigeria. 99 x 74 inches, 251 x 187 cm.
Adama Delphine Fawundu, "Ngewo Whispers," 2023. Archival Pigment on Aluminum. 72 x 48 inches. 182.88 x 121.92 cm. ©️ Courtesy of the Artist and HESSE FLATOW
Closed on University Holidays (November 3, 26, and 27; December 24, 25, and 31; January 1 and 18).
Columbia University School of the Arts is proud to present We be the luminous blues… by acclaimed artist, alum, and Assistant Professor Adama Delphine Fawundu ‘18.
We invite you to view Fawundu’s eleven banners installed in the lobby of the Lenfest Center for the Arts. Open to the public, the exhibition celebrates ancestors and alumni of Columbia University who transformed the world in remarkable ways: anthropologist Ruth Benedict; biochemist Marie Maynard Daly; dentist Annie Elizabeth “Bessie” Delany and her sister, educator Sarah Louise “Sadie” Delany; cultural preservationist Ella Cara Deloria; folklorist, novelist, and writer Zora Neale Hurston; minister and suffragist Mabel Ping-Hua Lee; organizer and social worker Antonia Pantoja; actor and singer Paul Robeson; attorney and advocate Frederick Wells; and Jamaica, Cuffy, Prida, Caesar, Jenny, Betsy, Pompey, and Richard Jenkins—all of whom were enslaved by Samuel Bard and his family—as well as James, who escaped in 1776.
In Fawundu’s stunning collages, these pathbreaking individuals appear alongside sacred geometric symbols inspired by Yoruba, Bakongo, Mende, Navajo and Lenni-Lenape traditions; using her process, Kpoto Patchwok, Fawundu mines and regenerates her expanding image archive of her body, textiles, hair, and various water bodies into new forms.
🪻🪻With contributions by Mistura Allison, Berette S Macaulay, Niama Safia Sandy, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Deborah Willis 🪻🪻
Building on the notion of ‘praise,’ Adama Delphine Fawundu frames this book as a celebration of life. She honors the stories whispered to her by her mother; she adorns her body in her grandmother’s textile work; she elevates the memory of various named and unnamed Black women of the diaspora and documents the iconic small Civil War era styled white wooded praise house on a patch of land off the side of a road in South Carolina not far from Beaufort creating an intimate body of work of color photography of an interconnected history.
This book about female figures—grandmothers, mothers, daughters, artists, caregivers, storytellers, and cooks—explores a range of emotions that consume us about family life and history. It is both an art book and a memoir. Viewing it brings us face to face with known and unknown cultures and introduces us to various art practices shared, taught, and learned through the African diasporic traditions. Fawundu connects to the self through history, joy, and beauty and offers the reader ways to navigate fear based on migration and loss. It is a gift, too, as it allows us to imagine alongside the artist.
-Deborah Willis
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A multidisciplinary artist, Fawundu’s process uses ritualistic, Indigenous body memory to tether the living and the ancestral. With the understanding that water is a portal, her body becomes a vessel or container of memory that traverses space and time. Traveling to different countries in the diaspora, Fawundu builds a living archive of ora, hair, rafa, cowrie shells, mud, sand, stones, chalk, calabash, dried leaves, and herbs that inform her mixed media assemblage works. Her practice is materially dense yet spiritually porous to allow for ancestral and Indigenous intelligence to become embodied and manifest in every aspect of her work.
She is subsumed by memories that are
carried through water—which she traces from one aqua vein to another in a circulatory ancestral system that unifies the diasporic body—plunging herself into bodies of water in various countries of the diaspora in meditative rituals. Her rituals then become immortalized in her photographs and films, providing cultural continuity for communities stripped of their ties to history and robbed of their memories and bodies.
Read more in “Salt, Water, Memory: Restitution Through the Work of Adama Delphine Fawundu” by Yvonne Mpwo,
Independent Curator and bana’pwo Founder from the latest salt publication available in English and Spanish.
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salt 17 was funded in part by The Joseph and Evelyn Rosenblatt Enrichment Fund
salt 17 curatorial sponsor: Erica and Ben Dahl
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Adama Delphine Fawundu's engagement
Adama Delphine Fawundu's engagement rate on Instagram is 1.88%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 53 followers. Comments stay close to likes on Adama Delphine Fawundu's posts, at 305 likes and 32 comments on average, about 9.5 likes per comment.
Engagement rate
1.88%
- Avg likes
- 305
- Avg comments
- 32
- Interactions : followers
- 1 : 53
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Adama Delphine Fawundu (@adamadelphine) is an Artist creator on Instagram, also filed under Art & DIY. Adama Delphine Fawundu uses an Instagram professional account. The Instagram bio for Adama Delphine Fawundu runs to 16 words across 5 lines.
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Adama Delphine Fawundu has 15,820 followers on Instagram (15.8K). Adama Delphine Fawundu follows 7,512 accounts, so the audience is roughly 2.1 times the size of the list followed. With 3,703 posts published, Adama Delphine Fawundu's archive runs well past the 2,000 mark.
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Adama Delphine Fawundu's engagement rate on Instagram is 1.88%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 53 followers. Comments stay close to likes on Adama Delphine Fawundu's posts, at 305 likes and 32 comments on average, about 9.5 likes per comment.
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Flinque files Adama Delphine Fawundu under Artist, with Art & DIY as a secondary category. Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Adama Delphine Fawundu, 7 are videos, 2 are carousels and 1 is a single image. The 10 recent Instagram captions Flinque holds for Adama Delphine Fawundu repeatedly use the words work, fawundu’s, process, water and through. Adama Delphine Fawundu's captions carry hashtags such as #sankofa, #columbiaalum and #indigo. Adama Delphine Fawundu writes those captions mainly in English.
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