@kobbygram tells us his favourite expression, and leave it to him to choose something not only linked to music, but also linked to Ghanaian hustle ✨✨
#highlife #ghana #westafrica #accra
@kobbygram makes a really interesting observation about the evolution of the mainstream dance scene, and how the nature of the spaces have affected the dance culture, and vice versa.
Watch the full conversation on the inktippedjourneys’ YouTube link to hear more about how this may be linked to Ghana’s visitors, but also to hear many other insights on Ghanaian music, and culture more broadly.
#ghana #accra #azonto
@kobbygram tells us his favourite theme in Ghanaian music, and it is fascinating and hilarious!
Needless to say, if he ever teaches a class on this, it’ll be fully subscribed 😅
Have you noticed this thread running through West African music?
Watch the full conversation at the inktippedjourneys’ YouTube link.
#ghana #accra #highlife #africa
Somehow, people have come to think of therapy as a Western invention.
We’re kicking off *Knowledge on the Rocks* for 2026 with @araba.oa here to correct the record.
*Your Ancestors Went to Therapy (and you should too)* traces how African tradition quietly shaped the psychology the West now charges you dollars per hour for, and how to bring that wisdom back into everyday life. There’s also a drumming meditation on the programme.
Tickets at the door
Your ancestors would want you to come.
MOVING MASCULINITY: ACCRA: a video photo-album...press play
On this evening, the work on Black masculinity moved from digital village to public encounter at The Mix Art Gallery, Osu, Accra.
This is the story of that night in pictures.
Pictures by @pauladdophotography
#MovingMasculinityAccra #EmotionalJustice
Six years. Six pictures. More memories than I could ever count.
I miss you.
Still.
I doubt that will ever go away. And that's okay: I don't think I'd want it to.
I am surviving you as best as I can. It's easier these days. An earned ease for which I'm thankful.
Visit (again) sometime soon.
In dreams.
In signs and 'coincidences.'
(You ain't slick: I sense you every time).
Leaving T.R.O.Y here as sonic libation to you for today. There had better be some dope hiphop up there.
I love you, man.
In 2018, I filmed nine Ghanaian creatives and never released the footage.
Eight years later, I went back and asked them the same questions.
This is the first trailer for ACCRA BECOMING: a documentary about what it actually takes to build a creative life in this city of ours.
This trailer features three of the nine creatives we interviewed:
Ama Diaka: @poetra_asantewa
Hanson Akatti: @hansonakatti
Ato Annan: @atoannan.x (of @fca_ghana )
Two more trailers will drop over the coming days, before the full documentary is launched later this month.
Meanwhile, check out my Substack for more details (link in bio).
#AccraBecoming #ghana #AfricaNoFilter #workreimagined #narrativechampion
This is for everyone who keeps telling me they'd like their brains stimulated at least once before January. I've heard o.
Since some of you missed our first lecture-at-a-bar in June (and have been guilt tripping me in my DMs ever since), @palmmoments and I are running it back with a three-week series under Palm Mo's "Knowledge on the Rocks" format. Think TED Talk meets Detty December.
Here's the lineup:
16th Dec: Afrobeats, Afrofusion and the Alté(rnative) History of Ghana (Part I):
A second chance for everyone who claimed they were “on the way coming” (👀) to the first one. The history of modern Ghana told through the evolution of highlife: from palm wine and big band to burger highlife, ending with the rise of hiplife.
23rd Dec: Afrobeats, Afrofusion and the Alté(rnative) History of Ghana (Part II):
Picking up the story from azonto through asakaa to Accra's alté(rnative) scenes.
30th Dec: Azonto vs Afrobeats: Did Ghana Drop the Ball?:
I know my answer. Come and share yours.
So. If your December needs something slightly smarter than parté after parté, pull up.
Small PSA: this edition isn't free, but since so many of you claimed you'd pay for the next one, we’ve kept the price low enough to test that theory.
✌🏿😘
Another 365, and I'm finally in my late 40s: two short years from 50.
Past 30, birthdays only seem to matter in multiples of five. So 48 feels like...
Transit.
Apologies if you've been struggling to reach me recently. I’ve been quite withdrawn. Reflecting. Resetting. Trying to be present.
In my twenties, I learned that I didn't know half the things teenage me was so certain I did. I was so sure I would figure life out by 27. By 35, I started to panic that I still hadn't.
But a beautiful thing happens in your 40s. Despite the losses that come prepackaged with that decade, you start to get used to all the uncertainty and flux.
Better still, you start running out of something that rhymes with that last word.
You look back at everything you've done. Everything you've endured. And you start to sense that whatever else happens, you'll survive.
Despite the infuriatingly sorry state of the world, 47 was one of the kindest years I've lived. It showed me deep Love and alignment. Across distance, and even from beyond the grave.
I'm grateful. And I hope I gave as much love as I got.
47 was also the year a good friend told me that my problem is I don't finish things.
So that is what I will spend my two remaining years in transit doing.
PS: Morocco owes me nothing
Kobby Graham x Knowledge on the Rocks
Still buzzing from the first edition of Palm Moments’ Knowledge on the Rocks! And who better to kick things off than the one and only Professor DJ @kobbygram ?
His talk, “Afrobeats, Afrofusion & the Alté(native) History of Ghana”, was a delicious 45-minute taste of a 3-day lecture—and if you’re a music nerd like me, you’d know: it HIT.
Kobby doesn’t just talk culture—he lives it. His blend of academic depth and street-level insight? Unmatched. Makes you wanna go back to school… Stanford, maybe?
The room was PACKED with fellow music heads. Great vibes. Great convos. Great energy.
If this is just the beginning, @tasiacobbinah and the @palmmoments crew are definitely onto something special.
Can’t wait for the next one. Big love to Kobby for pouring out so much knowledge with heart.
#KobbyGraham #KnowledgeOnTheRocks #PalmMoments #Afrobeats #Afrofusion #MusicNerdsUnite #CulturalScholar #LiveMusicLove #HighlifeHistory #GhanaMusic #CreativeGhana
