Kwame Write

Kwame Aidoo (b. 1986) is a writer, cultural organizer, farmer and artist from Ghana with a background in biochemistry from KNUST – Kumasi and MOOC Cultural Organizations in Transition from Leuphana University. His work explores how the constructs of science can engage the liberties of art- how West African oral, polyrhythmic, design, material, symbolical and archival methods interact with sociopolitical contexts. He is an instructor at Architecture is Free Foundation and a researcher at Humboldt University’s Decolonial Flanerie and Amo Salon. He participated in Manifesta 12 (2018), Nasjonalmuseet – Oslo(2016), FLUPP – Rio(2015), and more. He is the founder of Nkabom Literary Art Festival, Buzanga Books, Slam Ghana, Portals of Ghana and Kpaluhi Weaving Project. He plays in the Paris based Afrobeat band Break Ya Bones and is the author of Ananse Makes Aurora (Enostone, 2021).