Greg Osei is a Ghanaian-American, New York-based singer-songwriter and filmmaker. Through radical honesty, in his work he seeks the intersection of the social, the spiritual, and the deeply personal, particularly through an Afro-cosmopolitan lens.
Shortly after the U.S. presidential election in 2016, a dear friend and fellow artist wrote my friend Abdiel (the dancer in “Searching for Wonder”) and I to express his frustration with not knowing his ancestry and the richness of his history as a Black-American descendant of enslaved people. He said that he envied the fact that Abdiel (a native of the Ivory Coast) and I (a first generation Ghanaian-American) knew where we came from. Abdiel and I had access to something that was unfairly denied to him.
What my friend didn’t know was that he was speaking to a frustration that we too had confronted in our own ways. Abdiel and I had previously…
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