Kwesi Owusu

**Kwesi Owusu** bụ onye edemede Ghana, onye na-eme ihe nkiri, na onye ọchụnta ego na-emepụta ihe.  na-ewere ya dị ka "otu n'ime ndị isi na-eme ihe nkiri na ndị ọkachamara na nkwukọrịta na Ghana" ma bụrụkwa onye dere akwụkwọ ise. N'afọ ndị 1980, ọ bụ onye guzobere otu egwu egwu pan-African African Dawn.  afọ 2022, Owusu akwadowo podcast nke African Dawn, na-ekpuchi "akụkọ a na-akọghị" site na akụkọ ọdịbendị Afrịka yana ihe ndị na-eme ugbu a n'ụwa nka.

## Akụkọ ndụ

### Afọ ndị mbụ na agụmakwụkwọ
A mụrụ Kwesi Owusu na Sekondi, Gold Coast (Ghana ugbu a), n'etiti afọ 1950.   gara Adisadel College, Cape Coast, [1] na-aga n'ihu na-eme ọmụmụ postgraduate na Political Science na Pre Colonial African Social Formations na London School of Economics (1980-83).  

### Oge Afọ Abụọ
'ịga n'ihu na-ebi na England, n'afọ ndị 1980, Owusu guzobere otu uri na egwu pan-African, African Dawn, ya na Sheikh Gueye na Wanjiku Kiarie, nke Nii Noi Nortey mechara sonye,  Merle Collins, Wala Danga, na Vico Mensah.   kọwara ya dị ka "griots nke oge a", [1] African Dawn wepụtara abọm anọ, na n'etiti ọrụ ndị ọzọ ya na Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o rụkọtara ọrụ na mmepụta nke 1984 The Trial of Dedan Kimathi.  'ikwu okwu banyere ịma mma nke African Dawn, Ngũgĩ kwuru, sị: "Nye Owusu, njikọta nke ụdị nka nke orature bụ ihe na-enye ndị na-ese ihe ojii àgwà mba ụwa dị ka ndị na-eme ihe nkiri na ndị ọrụ ọdịbendị na-agbagha nkọwa nke geopolitical iji jikọọ na ebe ndị na-akpali mmụọ na Africa, Eshia, na Caribbean n'ahapụghị nkwupụta ha maka ohere ha ziri ezi n'ime Britain na Europe.

### Ide ihe
N'afọ 1986, Owusu bipụtara akwụkwọ The Struggle for Black Arts in Britain (banyere ịmepụta ezigbo omenala Black arts na UK, na njikọ dị n'etiti nka a ma ama, ime ihe ike na nnupụisi Black),  sochiri na 1987 site na Behind the Masquerade, nke ya na Jacob Ross dere, na Notting Hill Carnival. 

Owusu dezigharịrị Storms of the Heart: An Anthology of Black Arts and Culture (1988) na Black British Culture and Society: A Text Reader na 2000. Onye ọkà mmụta na onye nkatọ Homi K. Bhabha na nyocha nke Storms of the Heart for Art Monthly kwuru, sị: "E nwere oké ifufe n'etiti akwụkwọ a, ọgba aghara nke na-eso mmalite nke ọdịbendị ndị isi ojii nke oge a, nke a na-egosipụta n'ụdị ederede n'onwe ya. ...ma eleghị anya nhazi kachasị akpali nke ọdịbendụ n'akwụkwọ a, maka m ọ dịkarịa ala, bụ ịjụ echiche ọdịbendị dị n'otu. " 

'afọ 2012, Owusu bipụtara Ghana Highlife Music, nke ya na ọkachamara n'egwú Afrịka Florent Mazzoleni dere.

### Ihe nkiri
Ọrụ ihe nkiri Owusu malitere na 1980s mgbe ọ bụ onye na-amụ ọrụ na onye nduzi na Channel 4's Cinema Action. N'afọ 1988, ya na Kwate Nee-Owoo mere *Ouaga*, ihe ngosi banyere ihe nkiri sinima Afrịka, na ihe nkiri ha *Ama* - ihe nkiri Afrịka mbụ a gbara na London  - ka a tọhapụrụ ya na 1992, gosipụtara ya na Ghana, London, Cannes na ebe ndị ọzọ na mba ụwa.  

### Mgbasa ozi ndị ọzọ, ọrụ ọdịnala na ime ihe ike
Owusu so n'otu òtù, nke a na-akpọ Black Triangle, nke zụrụ Electric Cinema, Notting Hill, na Portobello Road nke London, ọ nwekwara ọrụ maka ịme ihe nkiri ahụ, ya na ndị mmekọ na njikọ ahụ na-anọchite anya alaka ndị ọzọ nke mgbasa ozi ojii: Val McCalla site na Voice Communications Group na Neil Kenlock site na Choice FM redio. 

Owusu nọ na bọọdụ nchịkọta akụkọ nke magazin *Artrage*, bụ onye na-eme nchọpụta na Mahadum Cambridge's African Studies Centre,  ma kụzie na mahadum dị na UK na US. 

Owusu  onye isi nke Africa Initiative nke mkpọsa Jubilee 2000 dị irè maka ịkagbu ụgwọ maka mba ndị kasị daa ogbenye. 

N'afọ 2003, ọ meghere ụlọ mmepụta mgbasa ozi Creative Storm, na-enyefe mmalite ahụ maka ọrụ nke onye egwu Mac Tontoh nke Osibisa,  ma mesịa malite ọrụ ndị ọzọ nke egwu na ihe nkiri Ghana. 

Owusu  mepụta High Vibes Music Festival, nke a malitere na 2009, nke a kọwara dị ka "emume egwu kachasị akpali akpali nke Accra" ma gosipụta ndị egwu si n'ógbè ahụ dịka Tony Allen, Manou Gallo, Reggie Rockstone, Yaa Pono, Wulomei, Kwame Yeboah, na Gyedu-Blay Ambolley.  

'afọ 2018, a họpụtara Owusu ka ọ bụrụ onye nduzi nke School of Creative Arts (SoCA) na African University College of Communications na Accra, Ghana.

'afọ 2022, Owusu malitere podcast African Dawn, "nke a raara nye ịkọ akụkọ ndị a na-akọghị site na Africa".

## Onyinye na mmata

* 2006: onye a họpụtara dị ka onye nke narị afọ site na Millennium Excellence Awards 
* 2008: ACRAG (Arts Critics and Reviewers Association of Ghana) onyinye maka onye nnọchi anya ọdịbendị 

## Akwụkwọ

* The Struggle for Black Arts in Britain: What Can We Consider Better Than Freedom, London: Comedia Publishing Group, 1986.
* (Na Jacob Ross) *N'azụ Masquerade: Akụkọ nke Notting Hill Carnival*, Arts Media Group, 1987.
* (Editor) Storms of the Heart: An Anthology of Black Arts and Culture, London: Camden Press, 1988.
*  (Editor) Black British Culture and Society: A Text Reader, London: Routledge, 2000,  . [1] 
* (Na Florent Mazzoleni) Ghana Highlife Music, Le Castor Astral, 2012.

## Ihe nkiri ndị a họọrọ

* *Ouaga: African Cinema Now!*  (ihe ndekọ, nke ya na Kwate Nee-Owoo duziri; Channel 4, 1988) 
* *Ịhụnanya n'Oge oyi: Akụkọ nke Ndụ Obodo na Omenala nke Ịdị Ndụ* (1990) 
* *Ama* (ihe nkiri, nke ya na Kwate Nee-Owoo duziri, Channel 4/Artificial Eye, 1991, 100 nkeji) [1]
* *Segrin Africa* (1993) 
* *Mmiri bụ Ndụ* (Creative Storm/Oxfam, 2003).
* *Ìhè Ndị A Mgbanyụ Ọzọ* (2009) 
* Egwu Mfu Plastic nke Ghana (2009) 
* Abụ Maka Nnwere Onwe (2010) 
* *Ebe Ahụike Gburugburu Ebe Obibi* (2013) 
* Usoro ihe nkiri telivishọn nke Maternal Health Channel (2013) 

## Edensibia

## Njikọ mpụga

* Ebe nrụọrụ weebụ gọọmentị
* Podcast nke African Dawn
* "KWESI OWUSU a short biography
* African Dawn na Spoken Word Archive.
* The African Dawn, "8 Great Tracks from the Legendary Poets" 
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