Courage Dzidula Kpodo

Courage Dzidula Kpodo is an architect, researcher, and curator working in Ghana and the United States. His practice focuses on sociocultural transformations in both built and unbuilt spaces, and on the human and non-human actors, materials, and ecological conditions that shape those transformations.

Kpodo is cofounder of Postbox Ghana, an archival, image-based research project examining the relationship between architecture and the visual cultures of post-independence Ghana and other African states. This project has been exhibited across Ghana, at sites including Makola Market and Nkrumah Volini, and internationally at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale and Vantage Point Sharjah 11.

In 2025, Kpodo was lead curator for the inaugural LagosPhoto Festival Biennale, where he worked with the theme “Incarceration” and expanded the festival to venues in Ibadan. His production and design work includes the single-take film Certain Winds from the South (dir. Eric Gyamfi, 2023), which explores the social dynamics of north-south migration in Ghana, and which was screened in Ghana and the U.S. and at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Kpodo holds architecture degrees from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His thesis at MIT, about the construction of a two-kilometer path through Ghana’s cocoa hills, was awarded the 2025 Arthur Rotch Prize for academic excellence.