I enjoy engaging in panels, public lectures, and workshops at the intersection of music, culture, and education; anything that explores how culture shapes society.

As a board member of the Music in Africa Foundation, I help steer conversations on the continent’s creative industries, and I’ve contributed to initiatives like Création Africa, which awarded up to €30,000 each to fifteen Ghanaian creatives. A proud moment was delivering the keynote at the Ghana Cultural Forum’s 2023 Symposium – the country’s largest gathering of cultural practitioners – sharing a stage with Ghana’s UNESCO head and the Deputy Minister of Culture.

In April 2025, I was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, presenting a three-part lecture series that used afrobeats and highlife music as pedagogical tools to trace Ghana’s history and politics.

If you’d like to collaborate or book me for an event, please get in touch.

BOARDS & COMMITTEES

• Music in Africa Foundation Board Member (2024 to date)
• Création Africa Selection Committee (2024)
• ACCES Music Conference Curatorial Committee (2023, 2024)
• Ghana Studies Association Conference Planning Team (2019)
• Voices of Inspired Children Engaging Society (VOICES) Ghana Board of Trustees (2019 to date)
• The Kuenyehia Prize for Contemporary African Art Board of Trustees (2017-2019); Board Chair (2020)
• BloggingGhana Founding Executive (2010-2013)

Conferences

• ACCES Music Conference 2022 (Tanzania): presented Highlife & it’s Alte(rnatives) – combining DJing and public speaking – at the largest annual gathering of music practitioners in Africa.
• Re:publica Accra 2018 (Ghana): co-presented Revolution Radio – a paper on the recent rise of Ghanaian podcasts as a platform for alternative voices, viewpoints and sounds. Also participated in a panel on Afrofuturism: an African History of the Future.
• 7^th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) 2017 (Switzerland): presented Back to Black: New Manifestations of Social Conscience in Accra’s Creative Spaces – a paper exploring economics and experiences within Accra’s rising counterculture scene (as part of a panel on Cultivating African Cities: On a Decolonial Potential of Urban Cultural Elites)
• Lancaster University Richardson Institute Joint Conference 2017 (Ghana): co-presented Teaching Evolving Political Landscapes in the African Context – a paper on the experience of redesigning a Global South-centred undergraduate Social Theory course
• Open Forum 2012 (South Africa): participated in two panels – Patriarchs and Publishing: The Business of Breaking African Gender and Sexual Stereotypes and In Our Own Image: Defining African-ness
• International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) Conference 2006 (Canada): under the auspices of Sussex University’s Development Research Centre on Migration (UK) and the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (Ghana), I presented Beyond Rights: Integration Between Liberians and Their Ghanaian Neighbours in the New Buduburam Community – a co-authored paper researching relations between Liberian refugees and their Ghanaian neighbours.

PUBLIC SPEAKING, FACILITATION, & WORKSHOPS

• Presenter, Palm Moments Knowledge on the Rocks Bar Lectures Azonto vs. Afrobeats: Did Ghana Drop the Ball? (Dec 2025)
• Presenter, Palm Moments Knowledge on the Rocks Bar Lectures Afrobeats, Afrofusion, & an Alté(rnative) History of Ghana II (Dec 2025)
• Presenter, Palm Moments Knowledge on the Rocks Bar Lectures Afrobeats, Afrofusion, & an Alté(rnative) History of Ghana I (Dec 2025)
• Presenter, Palm Moments Knowledge on the Rocks Bar Lectures Afrobeats, Afrofusion, & an Alté(rnative) History of Ghana (June 2025)
• Mentor, Duapa Mentorship Programme (Jan-June 2025)
• Presenter, Ghana: The Culture for Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health (Nov 2024)
• Bootcamp Programme Coordinator, Création Africa (2024)
• Keynote Speaker, Ghana Cultural Forum, 12th Ghana Culture Day Symposium & 3rd National Delegates Conference (Mar 2023)
• Speaker, Webster University, ThompsonTalk: Highlife & its Discontents: an Introduction to African Altè (Sep 2022)
• Facilitator, 2022 Mo Issa Writing Workshops (Sep 2022)
• Presenter, Pop Culture, Pidgin & Other Strange Paths Towards Social Memory for the 2022 Library Of Africa & The African Diaspora (LOATAD) Symposium (Apr 2022)
• Presenter, Help America: Why Africans Should Care Despite African Problems for SOAS Virtual Lecture Series (Jul 2020)
• Project Lead, Ashesi Innovation Experience Creative Arts Module (Aug 2019, 2018)
• Facilitator, Getting Your Royalties Right for Aftown Music Workshop (Jul 2019)
• Presenter, Televise the Revolution: How Pop Academia Can Help Save Ghana for the Nubuke Foundation’s Ghana Must Go Series (May 2017)
• Facilitator, GIRD Creative Non-Fiction Writing Workshop (Oct 2016) 
• Speaker, Blogging Ghana’s Inaugural By the Fireside Monthly Event (Oct 2015) 
• Presenter, Accra Theatre Workshop’s Storytelling Marathon (Mar 2014)

Panels

• Panelist, Lenscape Photo Festival 2025 Reframing the Image: Contemporary Photography, Cultural Memory & Emerging Technologies (Dec 2025)
• Panelist, Pure Water Zine’s Burger Highlife & It’s Popular Culture (Dec 2025)
• Panelist, Yoyo Tinz Hip Hop @ 50 / 10 Year Anniversary Celebration (Dec 2023)
• Panelist, 2023 ACCES Music Conference, Connecting Africa and the Diaspora through Music, Lifestyle and Culture (Nov 2023)
• Panelist, Goethe Institut, Blind Date: Let’s Talk About Conflict of Generations (Jun 2023)
• Panelist, Popular Arts, Culture & Activism Conference, On the State of Popular (Media) Art and Research in Ghana (Dec 2022)
• Panelist, Lagos International Poetry Festival, Conscious Solidarities: Black Solidarity Across Generation, Geography & Gender (Oct 2020)
• Panelist, Pa Gya Literary Festival, When a Short Story Works (Oct 2020)
• Panelist, Adventures… Live! panel on Raising Kids without Sexual Shame (Aug 2020)
• Panelist, Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD) on Feminisms in Ghana; Are there new approaches in the push for gender equality? (Mar 2020)
• Judge, University of Ghana International Week Debate (Feb 2020)
• Panelist, New Versions of Old Visions: How We Dey Claim Wona Own for Tampered Press launch (Jan 2020)
• Panelist, Year of Return Speakeasy at eAnanse Library (Nov 2019)
• Panelist, Webster University Ghana talk on Social Media in the 21st Century; Its Impact on Mental Health, Business Success and Social Movements (Oct 2019)
• Panelist/Moderator, Celebrity, Complicity and Community: Making Sense of ‘Surviving R Kelly’ for Webster University Ghana (Mar 2019)
• Panelist, Tell Me What You See (Through the Looking Glass of Pop Culture) at the Yoyo Tinz Festival (Nov 2018)
• Speaker, Process Music Summit (Jan 2018)  
• Speaker, Buzz Meets Biz Accra Exchange Program (Nov 2017)  
• Panelist, Let’s Talk Consent Workshop by Drama Queens (Nov 2016) 
• Panelist, Ghana’asem Leadership Series (Oct 2016)  
• Host/Panelist, MESH Design Confab (May 2016) 
• Panelist, PwC Aspire to Lead 2016 Panel Discussion (Feb 2016) 
• Panelist, Government of Ghana/IOM Panel Discussion on Diaspora, Transnational Belonging and Giving Back (Dec 2015)  
• Panelist, Yoyo Tinz Palabre during Alliance Francaise’ Hip Hop Week (Nov 2015) 

MCing & Moderating

• Moderator, ACCES Music Conference 2024 Panel Discussion on Innovations & Opportunities for the Global Music Industry (Nov 2024)
• MC, Création Africa Ghana – The Festival (Nov 2024)
• Interviewer, Pa Gya! Literature Festival (Oct 2024)  
• Moderator, Nyame Mma Film Launch & Panel Discussion (Feb 2024)
• Moderator, Pa Gya Literary Festival, Creating Literary Spaces (Oct 2023)
• Moderator, Pa Gya Literary Festival, From Britain to Bokoor: The Ghanaian Musical Journey of John Collins (Oct 2023)
• Moderator, AWA ACP-EU Culture Programme, The Influence of Digital Technology on Economic & Social Collaboration in the West African Cultural System (Aug 2022)
• Moderator, Pa Gya Literary Festival, Learning About the Slave Trade through the Arts Panel (Oct 2020)
• MC, NYU Accra Labone Dialogues: Masterclass with Ama Ata Aidoo (Oct 2020)
• MC, NYU Accra Labone Dialogues: Archives & Local Production of Knowledge – The Kofi Ghanaba Archives (Feb 2020)
• Moderator, Conversation with Langlands and Bell at Gallery 1957 (Oct 2019)
• Moderator/Panelist, Celebrity, Complicity and Community: Making Sense of ‘Surviving R Kelly’ for Webster University Ghana (Mar 2019)
• Interviewer, Pa Gya! Literature Festival (Oct 2019, 2018, 2017)  
• MC, Kuenyehia Prize for Contemporary Art (April 2018)
• Moderator, Conversation on Creative-Friendly Families and the Development of Creative Ecosystems for The Africa Concert (TAC) (Feb 2018)  
• Host, Ghana Climate Innovation Centre Launch (May 2016)  
• Host, Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go Book Launch (Jul 2013)
• Host, Beyond Beginnings: Exploring the Place of Ethnicity in Our Lives: an nKENTEn Public Talk at the Nubuke Foundation (Mar 2015)  
• Host, Blogging Ghana BlogCamp (Apr 2014, 2013, 2012)
• Host, Invisible Borders Talk Party Launch (Jul 2013) 

Media APPEARANCES & MENTIONS

• Native Magazine, Understanding the Overlooked Legacy of Vinyls in African Music (2025)
• NPR, Jazz, Politics, Continents Collide in Oscar-nominated ‘Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat’ (2025)
• Global Brain Health Institute, Bridges of Equity: A Journey Through Leadership Week in Ghana (2024)
• Ghanaian Times, Create pathways for young African creatives to thrive’ (2024)
• Glocal Citizens: Innovation in Acculturation Part 1 and Part 2 (2023)
• Listen to Your Footsteps Podcast with Kojo Baffoe, Kobby Ankomah Graham: Moving Towards Peace, Love and Empathy (2022)
• If More Let’s Divide Podcast, Transformers: Rebirth From Grief Through Self-Discovery (2022)
• The Adventures from the Bedrooms of African WomenPodcast: (De)Centering the D (2022)
• The Independent: After the ‘Year of Return’, Ghana’s government hopes to reunite the Diaspora (2020)
• Ghana Studies Conference 2019: commentary on Sonic Lecture on the History of Highlife (2019)
• Webster University: Webster Ghana Examines the ‘Surviving R. Kelly’ Documentary Series (2019)
• CNN: She wants women to have good sex. So she started a website where they can talk about it (safely) (2019)
• Ashesi University: On Pop Academia: lecturer Kobina Ankomah-Graham looks beyond academic systems (2016)
• AMP: A Trip to Agbogbloshie with Belgian-Beninese artist Fabrice Monteiro and Senegalese designer Doulsy for ‘Prophecy II’ photoshoot (2016)
• True Africa: Fuckboys & Feminists: An African Woman’s Burden (2016)
• BBC: Leaving the UK and Going Home to Ghana (2015)
• Ashesi University: Retooling technology to make learning fun: the case of the Ashesi class that has lessons on Whatsapp (2013)
• Next City: Festival Aims to Prove Art Can Directly Benefit a City’s Poorest Citizens (2013)
• Global Voices: Ghana: Want a new constitution? Text 1992 (2011)
• Accra We Dey Podcast: https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/272287333&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true
• AccraWeDeyRadio · Interview with Kobby Graham aka Funky Professor

VIDEO

• CitiTV Breakfast Daily: ‘Should you compromise your happiness for the success of your relationship?’ CitiTV

CitiTV Breakfast Daily: ‘Should it be a problem if a woman is independent?’

This is Africa: Interview

Other Work

• Voice Actor, Captain Z Cartoon for the Mmofra Children’s Channel (Feb 2019)