Raised between the alternate realities of Ghana and Britain, I am passionately curious about music, African culture, and counterculture.

Through lecturing, research, developing creative projects, public speaking, curating music and freelance writing, I have championed arts and culture for over two decades. Both speak to social imagination, without which society is incapable of dreaming itself out of its problems; doomed instead to regurgitate the present in shiny new technological forms.

Culture matters. I have explored this idea across platforms like the BBC, written for others like The Guardian and Aperture, received a Miles Morland African Writers Scholarship, and DANIDA funding for Ph.D research on Ghana’s alternative music scene.

In doing these things, I am trying to create pathways for young African creatives, cultural practitioners and journalists to follow that I did not have on my way up.

It’s all for the culture, and towards the expansion of our collective empathy and social imagination.