Writing.

Writing & Thought Leadership.

I have shaped conversations on African culture, music, and creative practice for over two decades, with my work appearing in places like Kinfolk, Aperture, The Guardian, The Africa Report, and in DUST: the magazine I co-founded fifteen years ago to chronicle and help shape Accra’s rise as a global cultural hub. I see writing as storytelling and cultural strategy, operating at the intersection of critique, memoir, and fiction. Whether tracing the rhythms of Ghana’s alternative music scene; exploring grief and memory; or unpacking African politics through pop culture and philosophy, I try to make cultural knowledge something actionable, accessible, and influential.

A 2020 Miles Morland Scholar, my fiction has also appeared Litro and the Writers Project of Ghana anthology, The Sea Has Drowned the Fish, and I was shortlisted for the 2008 John La Rose Memorial Short Story Competition.

Get in touch if you’re looking for writing, thought leadership, or communications that bridges worlds: between culture and critique; insight and strategy; theory and lived experience.

Nonfiction: The Fall

In 2020, I was selected from 992 entrants worldwide and awarded a Miles Morland African Writing Scholarship to give me the financial freedom to work on a deeply personal memoir. Weaving themes of grief, masculinity, mental health, marriage, and divorce, the book will explore how my younger brother’s tragic death that year connects to generational fractures and the fallout that comes with how boys are shaped into men. Commenting on my entry, the scholarship judges said, “It will be an important book on an under-represented field in African literature.”

SELECTED Culture writing & thought pieces

Kinfolk: The Famous Six: an Afternoon with Amoako Boafo & His Artist Friends (2025)

Aperture: Living Archive: Seydou Keïta’s revelatory portraits of Malian life (2025); Image Bank (2023)

Tampered Press: Care is a New Cool: Arts, Politics & Empathy in 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)

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)

BLOG: OFFBEATS

I’ve recently resumed blogging, inspired by the sheer wealth of cultural and countercultural activity in Accra and across Africa. To make things more accessible, each post now comes with a short audio recording for those who prefer short listens to long reads.