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AKADi Magazine
by AKADi Magazine
The AKADi Magazine Podcast connects communities through conversations. Hosted by editor Abena Sεwaa, these conversations aim to inform, inspire and illuminate the work of Ghanaians globally. Listen to the powerful narratives of everyday people making transformative cultural change in their communities. And find out how you can be part of that story too. https://linktr.ee/AKADiMag
Episodes
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S9Ep1| BOOK REVIEW - Exploring Black Masculinity with Elvin James Mensah
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our first podcast in October during Black History Month UK. Author Elvin James Mensah's second novel 'White Spaces' explores Black masculinity through the compelling voice of British-Ghanaian music journalist Teddy and is a story about four friends: Teddy, Birch, Cain...
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S8Ep12| GHANAIANS ABROAD - a conversation with architect Hansia Essuman in Georgia, USA
Send us Fan Mail You were just listening to Hansia Essuman, Creative Lead at Banah Heights Ltd who holds I hold a BA in Architecture from Central University in Ghana, a Master’s in Urban Planning and Design at the University of Georgia in the USA. In the episode, Hansia mentions embarking on a...
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S8 EP11| HIGHLIFE MUSIC IN FOCUS - in conversation with guitar wizard Kyekyeku
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Kyekyeku talks to us about how he turned his passion for Palmwine music and Highlife into a career. He explains how guitar master Agya Koo Nimo became his mentor while he was at university studying a completely different topic and explains how he is immortalising...
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S8Ep10| NAVIGATING DISABILITY AS A DOCTOR - a conversation with Dr Hannah Brew
Send us Fan Mail Dr Hannah Brew is a portfolio GP who was diagnosed with the rare condition that causes muscle weakness, not long after starting work in the UK. She tells us how she navigated life with myasthenia gravis, the impact on her career choices and why we should all have more compassion...
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S8Ep9| BOOK CLUB: 'Hold' - a conversation with Michael Donkor
Send us Fan Mail In February 2026, Michael Kwadwo Donkor joined our book club and left us inspired as we discussed Hold – a coming-of-age book that explores the role of women, attitudes to sexuality, mental health and the tension between culture and identity. The book follows three teenage girls....
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S8Ep8| EXPLORING IDENTITY THROUGH ART- a conversation with Edward Ofosu
Send us Fan Mail Edward Ofosu, a self-taught, mixed media artist based in Accra, who, in September and October 2025 staged his first solo in Accra, entitled ‘Rhythm of The Soul’ at the La Foundation For The Arts in Accra, Ghana. Edward has had two solo exhibitions in Ghana and four solo…
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S8Ep7| LOVE YOUR MOTHER TONGUE: a day celebrating indigenous languages
Send us Fan Mail Happy International Mother Language Day! Hear Maame Serwaa Piese who shares her regret at not teaching her children her Mother Tongue. She shares her reflections in Twi followed by an English translation. You’ll also hear from her niece Mirekua Ansah, who provides her perspective...
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S8Ep6| GENTRIFICATION IN HACKNEY: a historical exploration with author Richard Yeboah
Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to AKADi Magazine’s Connecting Communities Podcast where we explore stories through a Ghanaian lens and dive into conversations with Ghanaians on topics including culture, the arts and history, which hopefully will leave you with some food for thought. My name…
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S8Ep5| A TALE OF TWO 19th CENTURY ASANTE PRINCES: a conversation with Andrea-Vicky Amankwaa-Birago
Send us Fan Mail Andrea-Vicky Amankwaa-Birago takes us through her research journey of uncovering the remarkable stories of two 19th century Asante princes. Cousin brothers: Kwasi Boachi and Kwame Poku were both 10 years old when they migrated to the Netherlands in 1837 on the request of…
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S8Ep4| 2025 IN REVIEW & 2026 HIGHLIGHTS
Send us Fan Mail Happy New Year to all our esteemed followers and welcome to our first episode of 2026. Kofi and I (Abena) thought we would use this opportunity to thank you for your support in 2025, reflect back on our podcasts from last year and look forward to some that you'll hear this year.…
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S8Ep3| THE EYES OF GHANA - unlocking memories from Ghana's cinematic past
Send us Fan Mail ‘The Eyes of Ghana’ is a powerful docufilm about preserving Ghana’s film heritage. Told primarily through 93-year-old cinematographer Reverend Chris Hesse, this story is one of hope, cultural preservation and is a call to action to us all. Reverend Hesse was Osagyefo Dr Kwame...
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S8Ep2| EXPLORING THE ROOTS OF MASQUERADE: Part 2 - a conversation with Claudia George
Send us Fan Mail Claudia George, an artist who creates under the name Claudia Zinski and works with batik, silks and canvas. In this episode, Claudia explains how her exhibition in Accra, entitled: The Meridian Love Affair Exhibition (13-18 November), will act as the foundation for greater…
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S8Ep1| HEALING THROUGH ART: Part 1 - a conversation with Claudia George
Send us Fan Mail Claudia George is an artist who creates under the name Claudia Zinski and works with batik, silks and canvas. In this episode, she talks about how art helped her to deal with the loss of her sibling and how she plans to showcase new work in Accra this month entitled: The Meridian...
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S7Ep13| THE SALON EXPERIENCE AT 1-54 CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN ART FAIR
Send us Fan Mail Writer Uwati Okojie speaks about ‘Le Salon - Art of Conversation’ - a living exhibition by Le Tings (Harris Elliott) x Johnnie Sapong at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair 2025. She shares insights into a Ghanaian art activation at the 13th edition of 1-54 Contemporary African…
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S7Ep12| BUILDING LEGACIES - a conversation with pioneering architect Elsie Owusu
Send us Fan Mail To mark Black History Month UK, we caught up with pioneering architect Elsie Owusu who famously led renovations at Green Park Tube station the Supreme Court and has worked with award-winning artist Yinka Shonibare. This conversation looks at Elsie's early beginning, the…
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S7Ep11| CELEBRATING BLACK BRITISH THEATRE - a conversation with Omar F. Okai
Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to AKADi Magazine's Connecting Communities Podcast where we spotlight Ghanaians making transformative change in their communities. Listen to Omar F. Okai, dancer, choreographer, director and founder of the six-year Black British Theatre Awards (BBTAs) - a…
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S7Ep10| CENTRING BLACK WOMEN IN FILM: a conversation with Anniwaa Buachie
Send us Fan Mail Anniwaa Buachie is an award-winning actor, filmmaker, audiobook narrator, who explains how she turned the story ‘Moon Over Aburi’ by award-winning poet and author Kwame Dawes into a film. That’s where I first met Anniwaa at the screening of ‘Moon Over Aburi’ at the London...
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S7Ep9| AFRICA FASHION WEEK LONDON 2025: a conversation with three Ghanaian designers
Send us Fan Mail Africa Fashion Week London (AFWL) 2025 kicks off on 9 and 10 August bringing together seasoned and next generation designers from the Continent under one roof. Now in its 15th season, this annual catwalk and exhibition event is one of the world’s largest and longest-running...
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S7Ep8| BOOK CLUB: Part 2 - 'Tail of the Blue Bird' - a conversation with Nii Ayikwei Parkes
Send us Fan Mail Poet and author Nii Ayikwei Parkes joined our Book Club in June 2025 for our review of Tail of the Blue Bird - his 16-year-old crime novel which has an exciting twist. This book is set in a fictitious village not far from Accra that becomes a crime scene with a difference that...
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S7Ep7| BOOK CLUB: Part 1 - 'Tail of the Blue Bird' - a conversation with Nii Ayikwei Parkes
Send us Fan Mail Poet and author Nii Ayikwei Parkes joined our Book Club in June 2025 for our review of Tail of the Blue Bird - his 16-year-old crime novel which has an exciting twist. This book is set in a fictitious village not far from Accra that becomes a crime scene with a difference that...
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S7Ep6| RETROGHANA - on a mission to amplify Ghanaian music
Send us Fan Mail Eugene Abeka-Donkor, the founder of RetroGhana - a social media platform on a mission to document, share and amplify Ghanaian music and the legends behind these iconic sounds. In this episode, Eugene tells us what inspired him to create RetroGhana, he explains what led to his...
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S7Ep5| BOOK CLUB: 'Rootless' - a conversation with Krystle Zara Appiah
Send us Fan Mail Listen to Krystle Zara Appiah, author of the award-winning novel ‘Rootless’ and the first published author to join our book club session as a special guest. We’ve been meeting every month since September 2024 where we read and review books by Ghanaian authors or books about…
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S7Ep4| DICK ESSILFIE-BONDZIE - Ghana's visionary music producer part 2
Send us Fan Mail You’ve heard of Highlife greats such as CK Mann, Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, Ebo Taylor and Pat Thomas but what do you know about the producer behind some of their hit songs? We spoke to the family of the late Dick Essilfie-Bondzie - visionary music producer and the first to bring a…
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S7Ep3| DICK ESSILFIE-BONDZIE - Ghana's visionary music producer part 1
Send us Fan Mail You’ve heard of Highlife greats such as CK Mann, Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, Ebo Taylor and Pat Thomas but what do you know about the producer behind some of their hit songs? We spoke to the family of the late Dick Essilfie-Bondzie - visionary music producer about his musical legacy,...
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S7Ep2| LONDON TO ACCRA - perspectives from three British-Ghanaian entrepreneurs - part 2
Send us Fan Mail The British High Commission in Ghana kicked off 2025 with its annual UK-Ghana Diaspora Networking Mixer. This year's mixer was a chance to capitalise on these economic ties and deepen connections between the two countries by linking the diaspora with relevant business and...
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S7Ep1| LONDON TO ACCRA - perspectives from three British-Ghanaian entrepreneurs - part 1
Send us Fan Mail The British High Commission in Ghana kicked off 2025 with its annual UK-Ghana Diaspora Networking Mixer. This year's mixer was a chance to capitalise on these economic ties and deepen connections between the two countries by linking the diaspora with relevant business and...
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S6Ep12| CULTURAL GAMES - an antidote to tackling antisocial behaviour? - part 2
Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to another episode of AKADi Magazine's Connecting Communities podcast, produced by Kamo. My name is Abena Sewaa, the editor of AKADi Magazine, and you were just listening to Stephen Barnabis, founder and operational manager of Project Zero, an organisation based...
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S6Ep11| CULTURAL GAMES - an antidote to tackling antisocial behaviour? - part 1
Send us Fan Mail London-based organisation Cultural Games Association (CGA) UK believes that education the next generation about the social, cultural and health benefits of traditional games played in African and Caribbean could help to tackle the rise in anti-social behaviour among the youth. We...
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S6Ep10| REDISCOVERING OUR PAST AND PRESENT THROUGH ART part 2 - with Ibrahim Mahama
Send us Fan Mail Some of the labour used to build Ghana’s railways came from the north of the country but there’s never been a railway in the region. But award-winning visual artist Ibrahim Mahama, in one of his latest installations, is interrogating this phenomenon. He has brought a piece of a...
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S6Ep9| REDISCOVERING OUR PAST AND PRESENT THROUGH ART part 1 - with Ibrahim Mahama
Send us Fan Mail Award-winning visual artist Ibrahim Mahama is the founder of three art spaces in Tamale, Northern Ghana: Red Clay Studio, Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art (SCCA) and Nkrumah Voli-ni. These arts spaces act as a repository for ancient and contemporary artefacts that have been...
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S6Ep8| THE AFROPERA STORY OF NANA YAA ASANTEWAA part 2 - with Gorges Ocloo
Send us Fan Mail 'The Golden Stool, or the Story of Nana Yaa Asantewaa' is an opera performance that debuts at the London's Barbican on 14 October. https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2024/event/the-golden-stool-or-the-story-of-nana-yaa-asantewaa The performance takes 12 classical opera songs,...
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S6Ep7| THE AFROPERA STORY OF NANA YAA ASANTEWAA part 1 - with Gorges Ocloo
Send us Fan Mail Gorges Ocloo is a multi-disciplinary artist whose expertise includes performance art, contemporary dance – he is a stage director, librettist and composer and co-artistic director of Antwerp-based performing arts theatre Toneelhuis in Belgium. In this episode, Gorges talks about...
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S6Ep6| REMEMBERING AN EWE KING - The Adamah Papers exhibition
Send us Fan Mail The ‘Family Ties: Adamah Papers’ exhibition at the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton, London is a collection of letters, documents and old newspapers belonging to an Ewe Fia (king). These papers are significant because they are thought to be the first of their kind in Britain…
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S6 Ep5| CHAMPIONING ACTIVISM THROUGH POETRY - a chat with Poetivist
Send us Fan Mail Epistles From Nkrumah Krom is a thought-provoking poetry performance designed with a symbolic language to reflect on contemporary issues from the vibrant streets of Accra. Poetivist and friends will take you on a journey through the captivating world of words and emotions on 15...
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S6 Ep4| FROM BEDTIME STORIES TO 3-D ANIMATION part 2 - a chat with executive producer Emmanuel Sampene
Send us Fan Mail Executive producer Emmanuel Sampene talks about schooling in Ghana, studying in the USA and pivoting from a career solely in academia to creating his 3-D animation series Turkey Pinky Pants. 'Turkey Pinky Pants' has been selected for the Cinemagic Hollywood Film Festival in the...
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S6 Ep3| FROM BEDTIME STORIES TO 3-D ANIMATION part 1 - a chat with executive producer Emmanuel Sampene
Send us Fan Mail Executive producer Emmanuel Sampene’s 3-D animation series Turkey Pinky Pants was inspired by the bedtime stories he used to tell his children. 'Turkey Pinky Pants' has been selected for the Cinemagic Hollywood Film Festival in the Best Animation category thanks to the hard work…
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S6 Ep2| PIDGIN POWER part 2: uniting audiences through opera
Send us Fan Mail In this two-part episode, we speak to two inspiring women who are central to this opera - Louisa Adjoa Martin who has over 20 years’ experience as an opera singer performing with symphony choruses and is a soprano voice in this opera. And Helen Epega, also known as the Venus...
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S6 Ep1| PIDGIN POWER part 1: uniting audiences through opera
Send us Fan Mail In this two-part episode, we speak to two inspiring women who are central to this opera - Helen Epega, also known as the Venus Bushfires, who composed and wrote Song Queen: A Pidgin Opera and is the lead vocalist in the performance. And Louisa Adjoa Martin who has over 20 years’...
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S5 Ep12| LIVING WITH AUTISM - one mother's story
Send us Fan Mail Autism is a developmental brain condition that affects people’s ability to communicate, and influences how sufferers process the world around them. In this episode, we look at the story of one mother who shares how she got to terms with her son's mental health condition. AKADi...
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S5 EP11| SUPERSTITION AND TRAUMA part 2 - a chat with author Marie-Claire Amuah
Send us Fan Mail Marie-Claire is the author of ‘One For Sorrow, Two For Joy’ - a book that explores the impact of unresolved childhood trauma in adult life. She wrote the book during the COVID-19 pandemic and recalls writing 54,000 words in two months, which she describes as "unnaturally fast"....
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S5 EP10| HEALING FROM CHILDHOOD TRAUMA part 1 with author Marie-Claire Amuah
Send us Fan Mail How does a person heal from childhood trauma? Listen to author Marie-Claire Amuah who explores the impact of unresolved childhood trauma in adult life in her debut book ‘One For Sorrow, Two For Joy’ on our ‘Connecting Communities’ Podcast. When we first meet Stella, she’s an...
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S5 Ep9| DEVELOPING YOUR WRITING VOICE in 'Small Joys' part 2 with author Elvin James Mensah
Send us Fan Mail ‘Small Joys’ is the debut novel of Elvin James Mensah which tells the story of a friendship bond that blossoms between two unlikely friends called Harles and Muddy. Harles is a British-Ghanaian queer man who has a lot on his plate. He’s dropped out of university. He has a fraught...
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S5 Ep8| CELEBRATING FRIENDSHIP in 'Small Joys' part 1 with author Elvin James Mensah
Send us Fan Mail ‘Small Joys’ is the debut novel of Elvin James Mensah which tells the story of a friendship bond that blossoms between two unlikely friends called Harles and Muddy. Harles is a British-Ghanaian queer man who has a lot on his plate. He’s dropped out of university. He has a fraught...
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S5Ep7| EXPLORING PERSPECTIVES ON CHATTEL SLAVERY with historian Hermann von Hesse
Send us Fan Mail What was life like for the average woman, man, and child in 17th, 18th and 19th century Accra? And what impact did the European presence have on the exchange of ideas, cultures, languages, traditions, trade and more? Our aim with this and subsequent interviews with historians and...
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S5 Ep6| CHALLENGING PERSPECTIVES: Accra, her people and the Danes
Send us Fan Mail Abena Sɛwaa and KAmo, the editors of AKADi Magazine share their thoughts and highlights from a series of books written about the Danish presence in Accra during the 18th and 19th century. This segment is called: Challenging perspectives: Accra, her people and the Danes. Our aim…
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S5Ep5| REMEMBERING COCKTAIL ENTREPRENEUR Douglas Ankrah - a tribute from his sister
Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to another episode of our Connecting Communities Podcast. My name is Abena Serwaa, the publishing editor of AKADi Magazine and you were just listening to Lily Naadu Mensah, older sister to the late Douglas Ankrah – the cocktail entrepreneur, author and…
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S5Ep4| RETURNING AFRICAN TREASURES - a chat with Onyekachi Wambu
Send us Fan Mail According to a report commissioned by the French president Emmanuel Macron in 2018, an estimated 90-95% of Africa’s heritage is outside of the Continent. What are we doing to return of African human remains and cultural artefacts? Onyekachi Wambu, who – at the time of the…
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S5Ep3| INTERVIEWING THE STARS - a conversation with broadcast icon Mike Eghan part 2
Send us Fan Mail Iconic veteran broadcaster Mike Eghan, aka the Magnificent Emperor, has had a colourful career as a DJ, radio broadcaster and more. He tells us about his encounter with Ike and Tina Turner, his time working for the BBC and shares some advice for aspiring broadcasters. Mike is...
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S5Ep2| INTERVIEWING THE STARS - a conversation with broadcast icon Mike Eghan part 1
Send us Fan Mail Iconic veteran broadcaster Mike Eghan, aka the Magnificent Emperor, has had a colourful career as a DJ, radio broadcaster and more. He tells us how he was able to pivot from a banking job to becoming one of the Ghanaian’s notable broadcasters; his time working for the BBC and how...
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S5Ep1| CELEBRATING AFRICAN STORYTELLING with Blitz Bazawule
Send us Fan Mail Blitz the Ambassador unveiled his novel: 'The Scent of Burnt Flowers' (2022) at Africa Writes - a UK literary festival, and we got to speak to him. The book is set in the 1960s, during a period in Ghana’s political history and we follow African-American couple Bernadette and…
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The AKADi Magazine Podcast connects communities through conversations. Hosted by editor Abena Sεwaa, these conversations aim to inform, inspire and illuminate the work of Ghanaians globally. Listen to the powerful narratives of everyday people making transformative cultural change in their communities. And find out how you can be part of that story too. https://linktr.ee/AKADiMag
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