films he has co-directed include Segun Africa (1993), and he has also worked on pop music videos. He was part of a consortium, called Black Triangle, that bought the Electric Cinema, Notting Hill, and he had responsibility for running the cinema, other partners in the consortium representing other branches of the black media: Val McCalla from Voice Communications Group and Neil Kenlock from Choice FM radio. Owusu was on the editorial board of Artrage magazine, was a research associate of the University of Cambridge's African Studies Centre, and has taught at universities in the UK and the US. In 2018, Owusu was appointed Director of the School of Creative Arts (SoCA) at the African University College of Communications in Accra, Ghana. Awards and recognition 2006: nominated Personality of the Century by the Millennium Excellence Awards 2008: ACRAG (Arts Critics and Reviewers Association of Ghana) award for cultural ambassador Bibliography The Struggle for Black Arts in Britain, Comedia, 1986. (With Jacob Ross) Behind the Masquerade: The Story of Notting Hill Carnival, Arts Media Group, 1987. Storms of the Heart: An Anthology of Black Arts and Culture, London: Camden Press, 1988. Black British Culture and Society: A Text Reader, London: Routledge, 2000. Selected filmography Ouaga: African Cinema Now! (documentary, co-directed with Kwate Nee-Owoo, Channel 4, 1988) Ama (feature film, co-directed with Kwate Nee-Owoo, Channel 4/Artificial Eye, 1991, 100 mins) Water is Life (Creative Storm/Oxfam, 2004). References External links Official website The African Dawn Podcast "KWESI OWUSU a short biography Alumni of Adisadel College Alumni of the London School of Economics Anthologists Ghanaian documentary film directors Ghanaian film directors Ghanaian male writers Year of birth missing (living people)