Kojo (Otmar Watson) – Performance art & story telling #Theafricanway

Africa On Focus the Podcast

Let’s talk to Otmar Watson, the Managing Director of Untold, a brilliant organisation based in Amsterdam. Untold is an organisation that celebrates African culture and history, through developing talents and skills of young people in performance art while telling the story of their collective African identity.Otmar has been interested in African culture since a young age, and he grew his knowledge and interaction with the culture through conscious rap, during the hiphop movement in the 1980’s. Intent on learning more, Otmar feels closer to his ancestral history through educational travel to Ghana, South Africa and other countries in Africa. Otmar is also keen to push the focus on history before slavery, to celebrate the traditions, culture and stories from the Africa that is often forgotten.Tune in to hear about Otmar’s insightful encounters from his travels, and how he hopes to use his knowledge and passion to provide a professional platform for African culture and arts.