Oswald Okaitei

Oswald Okaitei is a multi-award winning poet and spoken word artiste. He is a performance poet who combines music with poetry to paint imagery in the eyes of the mind. Oswald has transformed several poems into dramatic acts and has shared performing platforms with icons as Muta Baruka, Rocky Dawuni, Prof. Atukwei Okai, Prof. Kofi Anyidoho, among others. He is also a playwright, actor artistic director and Creative ‘Artpreneur’. He has produced plays as “In The Bag of a Woman”, “In Man’s Libido”, “Beautyful Nonsense” and others. Oswald was awarded the Pan-African Poet and Spoken word Artiste in Ghana in 2016 and is a World Poetry Director from Ghana. He attended the Ugandan Poetry Festival (Babishai Niwe) 2016/17 and was at the 10th edition of Storymoja Festival in Kenya this year. His works include A Wreath To Awoonor,A Bright Light Sleeps and Other Poems, Songs Of Condolence To Tacloban, The Sailor’s Sail Is Over, Mandela: The Soul Of His Earth, Tears and Joy At 60, In The Bag Of A Woman (Play).