SheRyhme is a poetess by passion, a teacher by profession and a business woman. She loves to pour it all out ( good, bad and ugly) in writing. She believe words are the strongest, unbreakable weapon that exist.
Noble Echep
Noble Echep is an Agric entomologist, who has passion for writing. She is a poet finding her voice in different societal retractions. She uses her poetry to advocate for women and to shed light on the importance of mental health.
SheSheSlam2022
Over the years the poetry and spoken words scene in Accra have seen many male performers than female performers and this imbalance is what Ehalakasa is hoping to adjust with the maiden SheSheSlam2022.
It is our obligation as a community to give sisters the space to tell their stories in different forms, one of such is slam. Slam is a three (3) round healthy competitive performance where poets perform their original written spoken word poetry before a live audience and are judged by 5 randomly selected audiences as judges judging on the scale of 0 -10.
Each piece or performance must be within 3 minutes at length.
This slam is a Herstoric moment in the spoken word landscape in Ghana. It’s the first of many to come, so let us take this chance to get women out there, let the landlords know that we have matters of importance we can bring onto the table.
Some kind of women parliamentarians addressing the state of the nation. “Ehalakasa, It lives in us!”
Berlene
Berlene is an excellently versatile spoken word poet who believes in expressionism through literature.
Her works’ genre cuts across social, economic, domestic, cultural and of course, romance.
Given her versatility, she writes poems for publications and spoken word poems as well.
She finished as 1st runner-up at the 2019 Ehalakasa National slam Championship.
Also, she won the Poet of the year award at the GAW world Poetry Day event in 2018.
Her utmost quest as she states;
“I want to cut people deep with my narrative that they may bleed different different colours of emotional responses”
Theresa Kufuor
I’m Theresa Kufuor staged as Twita lite. I am a spoken word artist, a writer and a fempreneur. I have been doing poetry since 2018 and life experiences are my inspiration.
Nora (Xorlarlie) Anyidoho
Nora (Xorlarlie) Anyidoho is a lover of words and art. She spends most hours of her day,
making meaning of numbers as a finance professional.
On other days, she loses herself in pen and brush strokes, in attempts to create beauty
Grace Louise Wood
Grace Louise Wood is a British-Jamaican writer, artist, educator and curator.
She has been living and working in Ghana since 2018, running education programmes
for the UK Government, and writing poetry.
She is an alumnus of Barbican Young Poets, and performed at their poetry showcase in 2013.
Her poems have been published in ‘Human Parts’ on Medium, Drama Queens Ghana COV-19 Zine 2020,
and Tampered Press 5th Issue and 6th Issues in 2021.
She performs her poems at events in Ghana, including ‘The Offering’ at Greenleaf Café Tema,
‘Arts Nkwa’ at The Canvas Accra in 2020, Ehalakasa ‘Talk Party’ in 2021, and the
Tampered Press 6th Issue launch in 2022
Tizaamah
I’m tizaamah.
A student of University of Ghana.
Level 200.
Studying Science in Aministration .
I write and it heals.
Grace Nkrumah-Buandoh
Grace Nkrumah-Buandoh, who performs under the pseudonym Bonkua, is a lover of words and music.
Through her love for reading, she decided to create her own world and started writing short
stories at the age of 8, but entered into the poetry community in 2018 with Ehalakasa.
She is an artistic activist, with a keen interest in addressing issues such as Gender Based
Violence, Rape and Menstrual and Reproductive health as well as Mental Health and General well-being.
She has a passion for volunteering and teaching, and believes that there is an artist screaming in
everyone’s mind.
We just have to listen and scream along with it. She aspires to be a artist who leaves her footprints
on the hearts of wandering souls so they can find their way back home.
Stella Gyimaah Larbi
Stella Gyimaah Larbi is a believer of a new generation of self reliant youngsters and positive changers in the classroom and the world to reduce inequality.
She is a proud Teacher, Trainer. Youngsters and Teachers Development Consultant, Keynote Speaker and a Writer. She is a lover of words and so adores poetry.
Gyimaah is the founder of “Youngsters and Teachers Hub” a non governmental organisation based in Ghana. Her work include teaching, consultancy, training, inspiring sessions, grooming and assisting to create strategies in the area of youngsters and teacher development. She runs “She to go” an innitiative to push women and girls to acquire soft and hard skills to break barriers in all domains.
She believes the foundation of a person is key to future success and everybody can make a change positively when the right values, skills and knowledge are acquired.
Gyimaah’s drive is to help uplift the gift in others; to dedicate fully when need be; To learn and come out with theoretical and practical innovations to change the face of learning.
She authored “Girls’ and Ladies’ Greatness Guide”, “Getting the Grades” and “Beyond Today”.