Share We are delighted to interview the award winning director, Baff Akoto. His debut documentary Football Fables, provides an unprecedented insight into the inner workings of African football tradition and migration and is described by Empire Magazine as “an insightful and, at times, sobering journey through a multi-billion dollar industry”. This film unfolds through the eyes of Francis, a »
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Ayo Johnson is a reputable Africa Specialist. He has provided Expert Analysis on many Breaking News Items; on issues relating to democracy in Ghana, Zimbabwe & South Africa, continuing conflicts in Somali, Angola, Congo, Guinea, Uganda, Mauritania, Chad, Madagascar and Sudan to mention a few. We are delighted to have Ayo on Myweku to share with »
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Chika Okeke-Agulu co-authored “Contemporary African Art Since 1980” with Okwui Enwezor, a leading curator and scholar of contemporary art, who is also the Dean of Academic Affairs at the San Francisco Art Institute, and founding publisher and editor of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art. Their book “Contemporary African Art Since 1980” according to their publisher, »
Share Nana Kofi Acquah is a global citizen who traces his roots to Elmina, Ghana. Growing up by the Elmina Castle and hearing all the haunting stories on slavery, he grew up believing, he might not be able to change the past but he can do something about the present. Nana currently works full time as »
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In the second part of our series on African Photo Sharing sites MyWeku finds out more about the people behind Mokocharlie.com. According to the two talented pioneers the website’s name which is a combination of English and Ga (a Ghanaian Local Language) refers to a ‘best friend or a good buddy’, and was built to »
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MyWeku: How difficult was it to leave a successful professional career for the literary world? TH: While there are a lot of trade offs when making the decision to leave Corporate America for the life of a writer ( two of the most important ones are steady income and benefits), my passion for writing and »
Share Kwei Quartey, a practicing physician, was born and raised in Ghana by a Ghanaian father and an African American mother. Kwei Quartey’s first novel — “Wife of the Gods: An Inspector Darko Dawson Mystery” is set in Ghana, the action moves compellingly back and forth between the capital city of Accra and a town in the »
Share Katrin Schulze is a postgraduate student at the School of Oriental and African Studies, SOAS (UK) and has been a keen supporter and contributor to Connoisseurs of Contemporary African Art. Katrin who is from Germany is undertaking research in African Art in Northern Nigeria. MyWeku: Your chosen research area will be considered as extremely interesting to »
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Myweku: Was it tough or easy when you started out as a writer and what was the best advice you received along the way? BM: It was tough, it still is really but the difference between then and now is that my family no longer think I should get a real job. Once they all »
Share MyWeku: What first inspired you to write? BA:I started writing when I was 10 years old as a way to cope with what I was going through at the time. The very first person who inspired me to write was my mother. MyWeku: How has your Cameroonian heritage played a role in your poetic life? Growing up »
