Richmond Ekow Barnes
(He/Him)
As seen in:
CNN International,
The Guardian,
Teen Vogue,
Vogue,
InStyle,
Dazed Magazine,
Essence,
Vogue Italia,
Ebony,
Luv FM (Kumasi, Ghana)
and
🇺🇸📍🇬🇭Editor/Visual Director x Exe.Creative Producer |Bylines @voguemagazine , @Cnnstyle, @vogueitalia @voguebusiness @essence @dazed & more
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Richmond Ekow Barnes’s Biography
Read Full Bio →Ekow is a distinguished editor currently for Guzangs. He's also producer and creative strategist, with an impressive portfolio of clients across the continent and beyond. He specialises in writing, production, and content creation with several commissions in Ghana and England. Ekow has worked with brands such as Puma, New Balance, Mercedes-Benz, Emirates, Burberry, Spotify, Qatar Airways, Adidas, Vogue, i-D , Ebony, GQ , Guardian and more.
Ekow holds a degree in Mass Communication from BlueCre…
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Articles
Africa’s Largest World Cup, Mostly Watched From Home
Ghanaian fans in the stands at AFCON 2023. Photography by Nana Asomani. The visa regime that will keep most African fans out of the stadiums of the 2026 World Cup is the same one that keeps African artists out of biennials, designers out of Paris fashion weeks, and scholars out of the conferences where their fields are debated. The audience changes. The architecture does not. What follows is a story about football, but the structure it describes is not specific to football.
The Image Belongs to Us
There’s a moment early in My Father’s Shadow where Lagos doesn’t announce itself. It just… is. A street. The quality of afternoon light on a wall you’ve definitely seen before. Children doing the specific nothing that children do in cities that haven’t been built for spectacle.
The Image Belongs to Us
Akinola Davies Jr on memory, 16mm, and why My Father’s Shadow was always going to be made this way. Still from My Father's Shadow. Courtesy of MUBI. There’s a moment early in My Father’s Shadow where Lagos doesn’t announce itself. It just… is. A street. The quality of afternoon light on a wall you’ve definitely seen before. Children doing the specific nothing that children do in cities that haven’t been built for spectacle.
Interview
See all 10 answers →What was your first job as a journalist?
Writing on fashion trends for GQ SA during Lagos Fashion Week.
What does it mean to be a journalist?
To be a journalist one needs to be very intentional & sensitive to what you put out there.
What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?
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