Apiorkor [Seyiram Ashong-Abbey]

Apiorkor [Seyiram Ashong-Abbey] is a Ghanaian Poet, Writer/Author, Literary Scholar and Critic, Media Practitioner, TED Speaker, Activist and Versatile Creative. She is the author of the poetry collections The Matriarch’s Verse and When the person who is called COVID came. She performs within West Africa’s most sophisticated spaces and has been featured on two TEDx platforms.

She has also been a speaker at Re:publica and has been a conversationalist as well, at the Reykjavik Global Forum, having spoken about The Power of Poetry and is an active member of TED's Red Circle Community for TED Speakers.

She was in Vancouver, for the 2023 TED Conference, as a TED Speaker Ambassador. Over the past four years, Apiorkor has led a campaign to have Ghanaian (and African) Poets, Poetry, and Artists properly documented in local media sources and on Wikipedia.

She is a member of the Poetry Association of Ghana Executive Board and a member of a newly-formed standing committee of the Creative Arts Agency (Ghana) Initiative on developing Creative Arts Education in Ghana, under the auspices of Ghana's Ministry of Tourism, Arts & Culture. Apiorkor is the Head of Programmes Production at Accra-based Citi 97.3 FM and Citi TV.