Akotowaa

Ivana Akotowaa Ofori, who performs under the mononym Akotowaa, is a teenage word artist; a young,... read more

Ivana Akotowaa Ofori, who performs under the mononym Akotowaa, is a teenage word artist; a young, passionate girl in love with words, their influential power, and auditory aesthetic. She was born on 22nd May 1998. She began reading long before she began writing. Her reading took off with Roald Dahl's "The BFG" at age 7, which propelled her to the magical world of words. It was Enid Blyton's books, Famous Five and the like, which inspired her to begin writing. As she read, she thought, "What if things like this happened in my own neighbourhood?" Thus, at the age of ten she began writing stories that were more relatable, as they were set in her own country, Ghana, in her own neighbourhood of Labone.