Greetings Glocal Citizens!

This week, Chef Mawuli Dzansi allows us the honor of being his first podcast appearance. And we definitely count that as a win with this rising start in the Ghana food movement.

Rooted deeply in his Ghanaian heritage, his passion for food grew as he explored flavors, techniques, and ingredients he discovered while living with his Aunt in Accra. Chef Mawuli’s expertise is largely self-taught, honed through years of dedication and an unrelenting curiosity about food. His experiences as an Executive Chef and his time at a Michelin-starred Kitchen in Amsterdam have shaped his innovative approach to showcasing the vibrancy of African ingredients.

He has always been considered unconventional, having led impactful projects like Dawadawa at Impact Hub Accra and The Kitchen By Ghana Food Movement, a food hub designed to train young chefs and promote Ghanaian and West African cuisines globally. He currently works as a private chef and consultant to some of Africa’s bold thinkers and organizations.

His serial entrpreneurship journey started from the moment he discovered how to please people’s palatte’s and Prekesse, a hospitality practice focused on private dining, brand activations and culinary consulting, is the culmination of his journey so far—a bespoke dining concept celebrating Ghana’s rich culinary heritage while embracing sustainability and modernity. Working across concept development, sourcing, menu design, and execution of immersive experiences for brands and private individuals his focus is on building considered hospitality that connects food, people, and place through African ingredients and contemporary dining formats.

Where to find Mawuli?
@Prekesse
On LinkedIn
On Instagram

What’s Mawuli listening to?
Omawumi’s In the Music

Other topics of interest:
Where is Ho, Ghana?
Visit Ashaiman
On Ewe languages
About Ga Fisherfolk Culture
Out and about in Surulere, Lagos
On “Continental” Cuisine
Dikan Center, Accra
Akuna Pod
The story of the Clubhouse app
Chef Mawuli at Odo Valley

Special Guest: mawuli dzansi.

Greetings Glocal Citizens!

This week we have an encore episode inspired by the many pitch decks that I’ve been reviewing from companies based in Egypt as part of my Dream VC Investor Accelerator Fellowship. Back in 2020, while we were still in the thick of the pandemic, I connected with Samir Abbass. I connect with my guest, Samir Abbass, while he was studying in Spain and when tours of any kind were on hold all over the world. Take a virtual tour with us into his real Egypt in this is two part conversation that I couraage you to visit or revist from the beginning.

Special Guest: Samir Abbass.

Greetings Glocal Citizens!

Exiting news…according to the Million Podcasts database platform We’re ranked #25 among change agent podcast thanks to listeners like you!

In this week’s change agent conversation we’re visiting with Odile Tevie, co-founder and director of Nubuke Foundation, a visual arts and cultural institution, based in Accra and Wa in Ghana.

In the early 2000’s she set up and ran the Black Swan gallery in London introducing Ghanaian, Togolese and Nigerian artists into the diaspora. Under her vision and drive, Nubuke Foundation, set up in 2006, has become an internationally acknowledged arts institution whose robust and engaging programming calendar has been seminal in supporting the career of many of the mid-career Ghanaian artists and promising ones like Na Chainkua Reindorf, Isaac Opoku and Gideon Appah.

Nubuke Foundation has become a creative community hub in the city of Accra, where informal learning programmes, talks, exhibitions, drama, spoken word etc. In Wa, the Foundation focuses on promoting strip weaving artisans and textile and fibre-based arts practice.

As you'll hear our surround sound is the long story of the raining season in Ghan and it was well worth the rainy commute to have this conversatio with Odile.

Where to find Odile?
On LinkedIn
On Instagram
On Facebook

What’s Odile reading?
African Women & Feminism by Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
The 28th February House by Demi Letsa
The Longest Week by Nick Page

Other topics of interest:
A bit about Tesano in Accra
The Wa Upper West Region, Ghana
Ghana A Portrait
About the University of Applied Arts Vienna
More about Ghana's Centers for National Culture
About Sensibilités intellectuelles africaines in The Conversation
What is the Myriad Alliance?

Special Guest: Odile Tevie.