In 1993, there was a young Black boy born in Dagaabaland. His first cries reverberated in the savanna plains in Dagaaba territory.

They named him Lwanga Songsore. His first name has its roots among the Baganda in East Africa, and Songsore is Dagaare for “the right path.”

His father, Lawrence Yirikpiengu Songsore, was a civil servant and worker, and his mother, Jane Frances Songsore, was a caterer of African dishes and a textiles trader. He was raised in their union of Black love with his younger brother, until his mother’s early transition when Lwanga was 3 years old. His father later remarried. He is the eldest of 5 children. 

He received his early education in the town of Wa in Ghana, West Africa. As a young boy, he was guided by his father’s instruction to visit the library and to perform reading and comprehension assignments at home using resources provided. Periodically, he also explored his father’s books at home. This is how his early love of reading and literature was ignited.

His first formal introduction to history was through a celebrated history teacher at St Francis Xavier High School in Wa, who was loved by many students. The teacher’s nickname was Zeus. His manner of teaching was matter-of-fact, but his aura as a person, which included his calm posture and midnight-colored afro added a superior gloss to the classroom environment. 

In Zeus’s classroom, Lwanga’s deep excitement for history was born. Those lessons he took under his celebrated teacher’s feet were teasers of knowledge that guided him into an everlasting drive for the truths of his ancestral heritage. 

By the midpoint of his teenage years, Lwanga went on an adventure to discover his indigenous culture, identity and place in his broader society, which suffered many effects of colonization. He began to feel reluctant about following the crowd. Some of the first major milestones in the process of growing into himself as a Black man was making the decision to wear indigenous African clothing daily, go barefoot, and grow his natural hair into an afro, which he later twisted into locks. 

By 2013, he left his home in the savanna to the coastal city of Accra and began his studies at The University of Ghana. He graduated with his B.A. in History with English in 2017, M.A. in African Studies in 2019, and is currently completing his PhD in African Studies. 

He is a Project Assistant at the Institute of African Studies at The University of Ghana, where he helps to facilitate the research activities of a group of scholars in an international project interrogating decolonization in the African University and its disciplines. He is also a Lead Coordinator at a consulting agency, Repatriate to Ghana, where he assists Black people abroad to successfully relocate back to their ancestral homeland of Kemet (Land of Black People; Africa), specifically Ghana.

Lwanga has engaged audiences at universities and media platforms across the world such as University of Pretoria, Columbia University, University of Abomey-Calavi, Makerere University, TV3, TV Africa, JOYFM, and so on. His scholarly work has been published in the Ghana Journal of Linguistics, Journal of Asian and African Studies, Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review, Legon Journal of the Humanities, among others. 

Beyond being a literary scholar, he is also a talented poet, actor, and live performer, who has performed at stages and television studios across Ghana. He’s appeared at the National Theater of Ghana, Accra International Conference Center, Movenpick Ambassador Hotel, Kempinski Hotel, Efua Sutherland Drama Studio, GTV (Ghana Television), TV3, Danceterra TV, among others. 

His scholarship interests reflect his dedication to empowering Black people, on the Continent and in the Diaspora. One of his missions is to uplift Black people’s history and culture in every area of his life, and encourage others to do the same. This dedication inspires his everyday interests in agriculture, cuisine, fashion, and family life.

He enjoys being in nature on early mornings cultivating farm land with an assortment of vegetables and plants, cooking indigenous African meals for his family and community, and designing and wearing indigenous African fabrics of Woori (smocks), batik, and bogolan (mudcloth). 

He views family as the foundation of his endeavors in the cause for Black Liberation and Black Power, and enjoys spending time with his loved ones including family and a network of friends who share the same ideals.

He lives in Ghana with his wife, Nakia Songsore, and their lively baby girl, Malebna Naa-maaluu Djenné Ragemni Songsore.