Kwesi Owusu is an award-winning artist with credits in film, music, and the literary arts. His first feature film, Ama, for Channel Four Television, UK is considered a classic of magic realism. He was a  member of African Dawn, the legendary group of poets and musicians from the Pan African World. 

Kwesi Owusu is a postgraduate of the London School of Economics and has lectured at British and American universities. His published books include; The Struggle For Black Arts in Britain (Comedia 1986), Storms of the Heart, An Anthology of Black Arts and Culture, (Camden Press, 1988) Behind the Masquerade.  Black British Culture and Society, A Text Reader (Routledge, 1999), and Ghana Highlife Music (with Florent Mazzoleni, Le Castor Astral, 2012).  

Kwesi Owusu has hosted TV and radio shows and appeared on BBC, ITV, CNN,  GBC and SABC.