A 2020 Morland African Writing Scholar, my byline has featured in publications including Aperture, The Guardian and The Africa Report. I was an editorial assistant at UNTOLD: a magazine on black British culture in early 2000s London. After returning to Ghana, I co-founded and edited DUST: a pioneering quarterly that blended cultural and social commentary from 2010 to 2012; documenting the beginnings of Accra’s recent rise as a global cultural city.

I was also a finalist in the inaugural John La Rose Memorial Short Story Competition (2008), and write short stories (in which I use the weird to explore the mundane) that have been published in places including Litro Magazine and the Writers Project of Ghana anthology, The Sea Has Drowned the Fish.

Reach out for thought-provoking pieces on music, African popular culture, counterculture, philosophies, and education.

Culture writing & thought pieces

Aperture: Image Bank (2023)

SOAS: The Dilemma of Ghosts: Floating Between Britain & Ghana (2020)

Tampered Press: Care is a New Cool: Arts, Politics & Empathy in an Another Accra (2019) (also carried in OFF TO magazine‘s Accra Issue)

The Africa Report: When Education Yearns to Be Free (2018)

The Guardian: The Absolute Beginners’ Guide to Pidgin (2017)

The Guardian: Sex, Fauxnogamy & the Married Man (2015)

Nonfiction: The Fall

In 2020, I was picked out of 992 entrants from all over the world for a Miles Morland African Writing Scholarship to give me the financial freedom to write a book. The Fall will be a deeply personal narrative memoir connecting the tragic death of my younger brother to matters of masculinity, mental health, romance and relationships; broken over generations and crushed under the weight of contemporary Ghanaian culture.

Short Stories

‘Heels‘ in The Sea Has Drowned The Fish: Fiction, Fact and Folktale from Writers Project of Ghana (2018)

‘Jam’ in Litro Magazine (2017)

‘The Debt’ (2017)

‘Multiply’ (2017)

Art Writing

The History of Ghana by Nana Danso (formerly Artsoul Kojo) at Gallery 1957 (2021)

Plays

‘The Weave’: performed by Accra Theatre Workshop as part of its An African Walks into a Container show (Nov 2014)

Editing

Odekro: Odekro Report on the 1st Session of the Seventh Parliament of Ghana 2017