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The brand PY actually belongs to PapaYaw Addo-Boateng, the dynamic impresario who's name is indelibly linked with the youth cultural revolution #BlessTheMic. In addition to his many sides as Entrepreneur, Creative Director, Film actor, Tv Presenter, Movie Producer, Brand Ambassador, Talent Father, Agent, MC, and Event Producer, this 27th day of...

PapesV is a rising r&b artist in the UK with incredible talent, but before the banger Radio all her hits got heads turning, she was first Vanessa Dompreh, the little niece of the legendary Michael Dwamena. PapesV's in Accra this June to film a video for her latest single, Mepε sε. Here, she shares a bit about her process with Ghanaians....

Behind every great musician is an even greater, dedicated producer/engineer: Mac Tontoh had Mike Swai; Kojo Antwi had Kwame Yeboah; Lumba had Bodo Staiger. Undoubtedly, the most significant agent around whom the youth cultural movement of this generation has evolved is Reggie Rockstone [for he's to hip-life what Kool Herc is to hip-hop]. Well,...

Among those at the apex of the next generation of Ghanaian writers is Ursula M. Abanga, whose dedicated presence online is more of a testament to the life of an already accomplished wordsmith prolific at yarning stories. She has, after all, been an integral part of Ink Up, the collective of young artistes online. She has thus...

The Ghanaian Renaissance began in the Harmattan of '92. It was a fervent period of cultural, artistic, political and economic rebirth that promoted the beginning of the rediscovery of panAfrican sensibilities, philosophy and understanding. Among the agents who became catalysts for the change was Panji Anoff. Panji was connected in various ways to...

New York City-based Ghanaian-German model Afua Boni was born Judith Afua Serwaa Owusu-Afriyie. She left Agogo at eight and was 'discovered' at 14 by photographer Martina Schilling in Saarbrucken; she re-launched her career in Los Angeles at 21, and settled in New York City to regroup. Standing at a graceful, lean and athletic 5-foot-10 inches with...

Thomas Kojo Alicoe Appiah is the Ghanaian Artist who's known by the tag TETEBOTAN KALI. He's a traditional painter who flits fluidly from graffiti to fine art to tattooing to body painting and back to watercolors and graphic design without skipping a beat. Accra is his canvas and his works adorn Chale Wote and other spaces in the...

N. Maria Kwami is a woman who has always been fascinated by ordinary people with amazing stories that might otherwise remain untold. The daughter of a journalist and an economist, she grew up surrounded by books. She spent her teens in boarding schools, studied journalism, and moved abroad where she completed graduate work in international affairs,...

Ayesha Harruna Attah is the author of Harmattan Rain, nominated for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Saturday's Shadows, and The Hundred Wells of Salaga. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Asymptote Magazine, and the Caine Prize Writers' 2010 Anthology. She received the 2016 Miles Morland Foundation Scholarship for...