Akan Twi Dialogues: Kwame Brenya

Akan Twi Dialogues is an initiative of the Akan Twi Class at Howard University, with Prof. Yaw Mankatah Asare. This month's spreaker is Kwame Brenya, verbal artist.

Twi, Tradition & Spirituality
Kwame Brenya is an Akan philosopher who uses the Akan language in the fields of music, spoken word, video performance, teaching, translation and voice-over.

He is an award winning spoken word artist and a published writer who recently published ADINKRA, KASA! a poetry collection based on the Akan adinkra symbols.

Kwame Brenya has four (4) studio albums that are basically spoken word and palmwine music.

Brenya was a speaker at the third Pan African Museum Heritage Conference (2023) where he presented a paper on the power of African languages titled EDIN, KASA, NIMDEƐ NE NYANSA: ETYMOLOGY AND MEMORY IN SOCIAL CONNECTION.
He was a performer at PA GYA literary festival in 2019 and 2020, and a panelist in the 2023 edition speaking on AKƆM AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION.

He gave a presentation at the recent Howard University conference on 12 March, 2024.

Kwame Brenya has been published in Ghanaian newspapers including Business and Financial Times (16 December, 2022), and the Ghanaian Chronicles (2017).
The Mirror captioned him as “the spoken word artist whose rendition berated false prophets and effect their craft has on the society". (December 17 2022 edition, page 27).

He has spent residency periods at perfoCraze International Artist Residency, Kumase (2022) and the Library Of Africa and The African Diaspora, Accra (LOATAD) Accra (2023)