
It is my opening question a July afternoon last year for the diminutive, introverted man from whom I sit across during break time at Process Ghana, a workshop he started in 2018 to nurture young local talent. The music maker, who joined Grammy oversight body the Recording Academy in 2020, is eating his rice dish from a takeaway box. Occasionally, he coughs or clears his throat due to the spiciness of the sauce, and sips water from a plastic bottle to soothe it. His eyes are shorn of some vitality due to fatigue, and his voice, as soft as…