Accra, Ghana · One night only, every night
Poetrymade it move.Strategy made it last.
I am Theophilus Atuahene Adu. I help festivals, foundations and brands turn cultural energy into institutions that outlive a single night on stage.
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01 · The ask
What I am hired to do
Three ways organisations bring me in. Each starts with the same question: what do you want people still repeating a year from now?
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Open with a poem. Close with a plan.
Conference keynotes, festival addresses and panel chairs that hold a room the way a stage does, then leave decision-makers something they can act on Monday.
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Narrative that survives the budget cycle.
Positioning, communications and audience strategy for arts organisations, agencies and brands working across African markets and diaspora audiences.
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Build the pipeline, not just the night.
Designing slams, festivals and talent pathways with the governance and selection systems that let them run without me in the room.
02 · Running order
Talks I am booked for
Built from years of organising, competing and sitting on the boards that decide who gets heard.
Brand Ghana, Brand Africa
Reclaiming narrative power through slam and strategy. Why the continent story problem is a distribution problem, not a talent one.
The invisible work of cultural builders
What legacy costs before it pays, and how funders can recognise the labour that never fits inside a bio or a grant report.
When poetry becomes public voice
Putting spoken word to work inside civic life and the SDG agenda, with the receipts from Ghanaian stages that did it.
Leading without losing yourself
For artists who became organisers: sustaining the practice that made you worth following in the first place.
03 · Action in motion
Where the work lives
Managing Partner
Ehalakasa National Slam
Ghana leading slam platform, nurturing poetic leadership and youth voices through a national circuit and a year-round performance calendar.
Read moreBoard Member · Comms & Marketing
World Poetry Slam Organization
Amplifying poetic diplomacy and global arts leadership, widening the routes African poets take onto the world championship stage.
Read moreFounder-side partner
SheShe Slam
Empowering women through poetry and performance in safe, well-run creative spaces built for competition as much as for care.
Read moreAdvocate
Vintagehub Foundation
Serving communities through intergenerational support and sustainable development programming rooted in local practice.
Read more04 · In print
Selected essays
I write about the machinery behind cultural work: funding, governance, burnout and narrative power.
When poetry becomes public voice
What the SheShe Slam finalists revealed about art role in civic conversation.
Brand Ghana, Brand Africa
Slam and strategy as tools for fixing who gets to tell the continent story.
When your legacy does not fit in a bio
The invisible work of cultural builders, and why funders keep missing it.
05 · From another point of view
Sometimes the answer is in the silence between the lines.IyamAtuahene
Working with IyamAtuahene is like plugging into a bigger vision. He listens, strategizes, and delivers with cultural depth.
He is building a whole ecosystem, not just events. His leadership is holistic.
06 · Bring me in
Put it on the bill
Tell me the date, the room, and what the audience should walk out believing. I will come back with a format and a fee.
- Phone / WhatsApp
- +233 55 374 7213
- Based in
- Accra, Ghana. Available worldwide.