Kobby Ankomah Graham

Creative Arts, Music, AND Culture.
Writing.
Teaching AND Doctoral Research.
DJing.
LO-LIFE: a history of ghanaian alternative music.
Media.
Efua AND Ebow.
Affiliated Institutions.
Blog.

Writer | DJ | Educator | Cultural Researcher | Sociomusicologist

Tag: Latifah Idriss

On Mom, the Ancestors… & Celebrrrrration!

Life + Politics, Mama Efua
Students Shouldn’t Always Surpass Their Teachers: a Requiem for K3V

Personal
bell hooks on Solitude

Religion/Consciencism
A Birthday Alone

Personal
‘Help America’: Why Africans Should Care Despite African Problems

Life + Politics, Politics
On Creative Counterculture, Empathy & Politics in Accra

African Creative Culture/Counterculture
Songs to Remember Mom By

Mama Efua, Personal
Uncle Paa Kwesi & the Fatherhood Composite

For African Boys, Personal
A Talk with the Idriss Clan on Creative-Friendly Families

African Creative Culture/Counterculture, Education
No Pastors Necessary

Religion/Consciencism
Introducing… the Blogcast

Education
The Debt

Life + Politics, Religion/Consciencism, Short Stories & Poems
On Bad DJing & Ghana’s Ever-Changing Sound

Liner Notes, Music
Decaf Live: Church for Music Geeks

Liner Notes, Music, nKENTEn
To Aris

For African Boys, Personal
Pidgin Won’t Die (& You Need to Get Over It)

General Popular Culture
Multiply

Religion/Consciencism, Short Stories & Poems
Death’s Digital Etiquette

Personal
#YouGonLearnToday

Education
Before & After

Personal
What I’m Feeling: August 2016 (Part Two: More Than Music)

African Creative Culture/Counterculture
What I’m Feeling: the August 2016 Comeback Edition (Part One)

African Creative Culture/Counterculture, Co-Signs, Liner Notes, Music
Montie: a Time for Anger

Personal, Religion/Consciencism
Dear Generic Ghanaian Radio Station

African Creative Culture/Counterculture
Takashie is Our National Philosophy

Personal, Rants, Religion/Consciencism
Why I Left Twitter

Life + Politics
The Gospel of Pablo

Liner Notes
A (Mad Late) Review of Lady Jay’s ‘Venus’

Liner Notes
How Adomaa’s ‘Afraba’ EP reminds me of Rihanna’s ‘ANTI’ (although they sound completely different)

Liner Notes
The Stubbornness of Sugar

Religion/Consciencism
Trips to Thug-O

Personal, Rants
A (Dope) Cartoon Made by Ghanaians for Ghanaians

TV
Alice Walker’s Poem for My Late Mother

Life + Politics, Mama Efua
This Should Be Interesting…

Events
Today: Chalewote 2014

Events
The Bastard (Not a Poem)

For African Boys, Life + Politics, Personal
Oteiba

Personal
Happening Today: the Accra Theatre Workshop Takes on Wole Soyinka’s ‘Ake’

Events
The Never Ending Facepalm

Life + Politics, Politics
What #OccupyFlagstaffHouse Means

Life + Politics
Christ vs. Nkrumah

Religion/Consciencism
#MyWritingProcess

Co-Signs
Life: For Father (Take Two)

Life + Politics
nKENTEn presents ‘Parks & Desecration’

nKENTEn
To Whom It May ConcErn: Happy Birthday, President of Africa – a Story by Noviolet Bulawayo

Personal
nKENTEn’s ‘Wɔn Mmfa Shoe Mmba Ha’

nKENTEn
Event: The Day the Stories Took Over Accra

Events
Music: Blitz the Ambassador’s ‘Native Sun’

Music, Personal
ASHESI UNCHARTED

Guest Posts
On Fuel Prices Increases & the African Art of Negotiation

Rants
Faith & Forgiveness

Religion/Consciencism
The BBC #100Women Event… starring Mom

Mama Efua, Personal
Guest Post: I Hate Ecobank

Guest Posts, Rants
One Night. Three Events.

Events
Being Bourgeois (& Other Ghanaian Delusions)

Life + Politics, Rants
Music: Where I Get Mine

General Popular Culture, Music
Music: What I’m Feeling (June 2013)

General Popular Culture, Music
Life: Policing Ghana’s Police (or Encounters with the Mafia)

Life + Politics
TV: Artscape – ‘The New African Photography’

General Popular Culture, TV
Event/Co-Sign: A New Image Through An African Lens

Co-Signs, Events
Sunday Advice to Ghanaian Christians From a Ghanaian Non-Christian

Religion/Consciencism
Event: Living the Hiplife

Events, Music
That Awkward Moment When You Start Blogging Again After Having Stopped Doing So For a Half Century In Spite of Having the Audacity to Host the Blogcamp…

Personal
A creative way to get people thinking about the most important event in Ghana this year…

Politics
Happy Birthday, Boss…

Personal
Music: What I’m Feeling (August 2012)

Music
Event: FELABRATION (aka. I’m DJing Tonight…)

Events, Music
Life: Sorry – No #FollowBacks

Life + Politics
Life: My Phone-o-phobia

Life + Politics
Love is My Religion

Religion/Consciencism
Music: Efya + Hans Zimmer + Duncan Mighty = Falou

General Popular Culture, Music
DUST (June 2012)

DUST
Event: The Chale Wote Street Art Festival

Events
Life: Trust (or “How Ghanaian Women Encourage Their Men to Cheat”)

Life + Politics
Life: A Note to Self (Shared)

Life + Politics
Ashesi: No Church In the Wild

Education, Music
Life: Hunting Down a Coward

Life + Politics
Music: Eleven Reasons Why the Blitz/Les Nubians Concert Last Night Was So Goddamned Special

Music, General Popular Culture
Music: M&M (m.anifest & M3nsa)

General Popular Culture, Music
Live Music Alert: Blitz & Les Nubians… In Accra.

Events, General Popular Culture, Music
When Will We Build Osagyefo’s Ghana?

DUST
Music: One Video, Too Much Ghanaian Creativity.

Music
“To Whom It May Concern”

Personal
Music: Blood & Creativity II

General Popular Culture, Life + Politics, Music
DUST Magazine (June 2011)

DUST, General Popular Culture
On Saving the Africa Centre

Life + Politics
Music: Blitz the Ambassador’s ‘Native Sun’

Music
Why Getting Ghana Wrong IS a Problem

Politics, TV
CNN Gets Ghana Wrong

Politics, TV
Lying to Ourselves in Someone Else’s Language

DUST, Life + Politics
On DUST, Rewriting Constitutions & Partying My Independence Away

DUST, Life + Politics, Music
Marriage Doesn’t Impress Me

Life + Politics
Afrobeat’s Return (aka. a small tip for young Ghanaian musicians)

Music
Freedom.

Politics
An Open Letter to the Mayor of Accra on Loud Churches

Life + Politics
‘Greed is Good’: The World According to MTN

Adverts, Life + Politics
Big Business Kills Pied Pipers

Music
Pride, Poverty & the Politics of African Imagery

Life + Politics, Politics
Blood & Creativity

Life + Politics, Mama Efua
What I’m Feeling – Sept/Oct

Music

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