DK Osei Yaw

DK Osei‐Yaw is an artist who romanticizes everyday life experiences and extrapolates their
melodies into a multiplicity of art forms including poetry, theatre and music. He is a Ghanaian
who uses his artistic self expression in a variety of ways to project everyday African life,
especially taking inspiration from childhood influences of his upbringing and education in
Ghana.
DK has collaborated with the French orchestra ARCHIMUSIC Big Band from Paris
on their tour of Ghana, and also recruited poets for BADILISHA Poetry Radio, an online radio
format ran by BADILISHA POETRY X‐CHANGE based in Cape Town South Africa, to deliver
a range of languages, voices and poetic genres via weekly podcasts of Pan‐African poets.
Recently DK's poem Plenty People Chasing One Ball was published in one of the biggest
North American anthologies for children: 'And the Crowd Goes Wild!: A Global Gathering of
Sports Poems' published by Friesens Press and distributed by Ingram, the world's largest book
wholesaler.