Janina Nana Yaa Asiedu is an Auckland-born, Ghanaian artist, herbal ritualist, and ancestral medium whose practice understands art as a form of care.

Through House of Afi x Nyame Dua, their work explores home as both a physical and spiritual site — a place of divination, healing, and return. Nyame x Dua, meaning “tree of God”, refers to a sacred gathering point in Ghanaian culture where prayer and ancestral connection took place. House of Afi represents what follows: home as sweetness, fertility, nurture, and medicine.

Working across visual art, ritual adornment, herbal formulations, and divinatory tools, Janina draws on African ancestral knowledge, intuitive practice, and lived experience in Aotearoa. Their work treats spirituality as embodied and accessible — something held, worn, and practised in everyday life.

In January 2026, they are fundraising by offering art to support the response to the ongoing genocide and humanitarian crisis in Sudan which can be found on their website HERE

Rooted in ancestry and shaped by movement, Janina’s practice positions healing as communal rather than individual. Art, in this space, is not decorative. It is an offering.

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