Adama Delphine Fawundu was born in Brooklyn, NY, US, in a family with an Equatorial Guinean Bubi mother and Sierra Leonean Krim father.
[3][4] Fawundu graduated from the Stony Brook University with a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies/Mass Communications, African American Studies.
Fawundu incorporates elements of biography and geography, philosophy and mythology, as well as individual and collective experience, to reflect on different social issues, mostly concentrating on the history and reality of the African Diaspora.
[13] Beginning in 2008, Fawundu documented hip hop, Afro-pop, and urban youth culture in Accra (Ghana), Bamako (Mali), Dakar (Senegal), Addis Abbaba (Ethiopia), Johannesburg (South Africa), Nairobi (Kenya), Freetown (Sierra Leone), and Lagos (Nigeria).
[14] In 2015, Fawundu participated in the LagosPhoto Festival with the project "Deconstructing She," using herself as the subject to address stereotypes and prejudice over remnants of slavery.
She used mixed media photographic works to explore the relationship between traditional Mende beliefs from Sierra Leone and modern world values.
The work was exhibited at two locations nationwide – at the African American Museum in Philadelphia[30] and Crush Curatorial gallery in Chelsea, New York City.