“What’s unique in Akosua Adoma’s film is the mixture of fact and creative storytelling; the clash of jazzy tunes, documentary footage, slow motion images, and audio and sound tracks that shift in and out of synch. It’s a mood piece, a meditation, a refusal to judge. It’s also edgy, fresh, and fun to watch.” - Jacobia Dahm, MTV

“This interesting mixture of live-action footage and animation addresses issues of race, culture, hair, and beauty… A thought-provoking film.” - candace smith, booklist

“Subjugation this subtle is easy to deny until Owusu’s camera has shown it to you. She eschews overt didacticism, and her film is more powerful for it.” - Nick Green and Chris Klimek, WASHINGTON CITY PAPER

“[Three stars] An interesting and evocative film. Recommended.” - K.Finnessy, Video Librarian

“With its clever series of vignettes and its sedate, almost hypnotic vibe, this film discusses globalized concepts of beauty and unequal power relations. It closes with a slow-moti on shot of a woman shaking out her hair against the background of the night sky. It is a celebration of the beauty of African hair, a special moment that is a bid for freedom as well as being erotic at the same time.” – VISIONS DU REEL PROGRAM NOTES

“An artful film… This film would be of use in a women’s or gender studies classroom, especially when discussing race and gender, as well as a larger library collection supporting postcolonial studies and African or African American studies curricula and research… Hair is the aperture through which race is explored, though images of poverty, cross-racial and international adoptions (‘baby dolls’ in another sense) are included to broaden the scope of the film.
Recommended.” - CIARA HEALY, Educational Media Reviews Online

“Playful remix of a black-and-white story..Akosua Adoma Owusu replaces the genre's authoritative voice-over with old radio adverts and choir songs, and sends it all back from where it came from. Curly, cunningly political and 'based on a true story” - CPH:DOX, PROGRAM NOTES

“...a striking commentary on intercultural commodification. The film’s final shot is a remarkable super-slow-motion take of the film’s own author performing a double-pirouette with lengthy hair-extensions flying about...the audience is enraptured by the marvels of hair as hair.... This shot provides an aesthetic experience of the fetishization of hair that is the film’s subject, and is truly remarkable as such....If there were an award for best single shot of the festival, this would have to win. But the weight of this shot depends as much upon the quality of the film’s preceding twenty minutes as on its own self-contained aesthetic perfection. As such it is an ideal conclusion to this story of hair as both an object of obsession and a marker of well-braided sociological interconnections.” - Randolph Jordan, Offscreen Magazine

“Me Broni Ba is a warmer, more human work...a sense that the crossing of cultural boundaries requires more than a mere acknowledgement of difference.” – Danny Birchall, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA FILM QUARTERLY

“A funky, impressionistic documentary on hair salons in Ghana and the politics of appearance.”
 - IAN MUNDELL, SenseS of Cinema

“...and Akosua Adoma Owusu's deftly wrought films on craftsmanship and culture.”
-  NICOLAS RAPOLD, ARTFORUM on The 56th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar