Kwame Brenya

Kwame Brenya is a Ghanaian multi-disciplinary artist, whose practices are strongly influenced by AKƆM; Akan philosophy. Kwame Brenya has four (4) studio albums that inculcate Spoken word, Highlife, Hip-life and Palm Wine Music.

His recent album BRƐNYA NE BARIMA was presented to Agya Koo Nimo, the palm wine music connoisseur after its release and the Legend expressed impression. Kwame's works are contemporary birthed from the desire to sustain the oral traditions and history of his community where he uses the Akan language in the fields of music, spoken word, video performance, teaching, translation and voice-over.His poem was selected as the best spoken word in the 2023 Library Of Africa and The African Diaspora, Accra (LOATAD) Adinkra poetry prize. In 2022, Kwame Brenya was invited by African University College of Communication, Accra to speak about his philosophy, art and lifestyle.

Brenya was a speaker at the third Pan African Museum Heritage conference (2023) where he presented a paper on the importance of African languages titled EDIN, KASA, NIMDEƐ NE NYANSA: ETYMOLOGY AND MEMORY IN SOCIAL CONNECTION.Kwame Brenya’s collaborative song was selected by GEDP/EU for the 2020/2021 campaign against child abuse which made him and his partner Kpodo, official ambassadors for the campaign against Child Abuse. Kwame has poems published in AKE Review 2020, Ghana Association of Writers, Legon 2019. He has been published in many Ghanaian newspapers including Business and Financial times (16 December, 2022), and the Ghanaian Chronicle (2017).