Kwesi Owusu is a Ghanaian writer, filmmaker, and creative entrepreneur. He is considered "one of Ghana’s leading filmmakers and communications specialists" and is also the author of four books. Biography Kwesi Owusu was born in Sekondi, Gold Coast (present-day Ghana), in the mid-1950s. He attended Adisadel College, Cape Coast, going on to do postgraduate studies in Political Science and Pre Colonial African Social Formations at the London School of Economics (1980–83). Continuing to be based in England, in the 1980s, he co-founded the pan-African poetry and music group, African Dawn, together with Sheikh Gueye and Wanjiku Kiarie, later joined by Merle Collins, Wala Danga, and Vico Mensah. African Dawn released four albums, and among other activities worked with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o on the 1984 stage production The Trial of Dedan Kimathi. Commenting on the aesthetics used by African Dawn, Ngũgĩ stated: "For Owusu, the fusion of art forms characteristic of orature is what gives to black artists an international character as artists and cultural workers defying formal definitions of the geopolitical to connect with centres of inspiration in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean without relinquishing their claims to their legitimate space within Britain and Europe. Orature so conceived is against the ghetto and the margin." In 1986, Owusu published the book The Struggle for Black Arts in Britain, and in 1987 Behind the Masquerade, with Jacob Ross, on the Notting Hill Carnival. He edited Storms of the Heart: An Anthology of Black Arts and Culture (1988) and Black British Culture and Society: A Text Reader in 2000. Scholar and critical theorist Homi K. Bhabha in a review of Storms of the Heart for Art Monthly stated: "There is a storm at the heart of this book, a turbulence that accompanies the emergence of contemporary Black culture, that is reflected in the form of the text itself. ...and perhaps the most exciting reorganisation of cultural space that is presaged in this book, for me at least, is its effective refusal of a unitary concept of culture." His film career began in the 1980s when he was an apprentice producer and director with Channel 4's Cinema Action. In 1988 he and Kwate Nee-Owoo made Ouaga, a documentary on African cinema, and their feature film Ama – the first African film to be shot in London – was released to much acclaim in 1992, screened in Ghana, London, Cannes and elsewhere internationally. Other