Ghana Culture Forum Congratulates Beatrice "Bee" Arthur on Maven Heroes Award

Maven Heart Foundation Honours Beatrice “Bee” Arthur with the Maven Heroes Award
The Ghana Culture Forum congratulates Beatrice “Bee” Arthur, Head of the Fashion Domain of the Ghana Culture Forum (GCF), on receiving the Maven Heroes Award, presented by Cornelius Kayode, Founder of the Maven Heart Foundation, on 3rd February 2026. This recognition highlights the important role that cultural advocacy continues to play in shaping a more just, sustainable, and culturally grounded future.
Bee Arthur has contributed significantly to promoting cultural discourse that positions fashion as an essential component of heritage, development, and national identity. Her work aligns with Ghana Culture Forum’s broader mission of fostering cultural awareness, creative excellence, and responsible cultural leadership.
Through her practice, she has used fashion not merely as aesthetic expression, but as a lens for interrogating identity, power, environmental injustice, and the cultural afterlives of colonialism.
In 2025, Bee Arthur was invited to the Our World Our People (OWOP) Festival, organised by the Maven Heart Foundation, as a keynote speaker. She addressed predominantly young girls and students on themes of confidence, self-love, and, most importantly, the celebration of African hair and hairstyles.
This recognition from the Maven Heart Foundation affirms her longstanding commitment to engaging the public in decolonial conversations on ethical and sustainable cultural production, the impact of Western beauty standards on African identities, and waste textile colonialism, which continues to stifle local fashion production and exacerbate consumerist attitudes among Ghanaians.
The Maven Heroes Award, recognising her sustained advocacy in the areas of sustainability, decoloniality, and social justice through art and fashion, follows her nomination for the Ghana Environmental Sanitation Awards 2025 (Impact Trailblazer Category) and her recognition as Sister of the Year for Sustainability 2025 by Under The Sisterhood NYC, USA.