Tarini Malik, formerly of the Whitechapel Gallery and the Hayward Gallery, will seek to "extend the reach" of Akomfrah's work at a "critical, transitional moment" for the UK's visual sector

The British-Ghanaian artist is well known for searing video installations examining issues ranging from climate change to colonialism

"It’s just extraordinary that it’s taken this long"

The UK’s international organisation for cultural relations has been subject to a number of cost-reduction exercises in the past year amid a massive funding shortfall