Essé Dabla-Attikpo

Essé Dabla-Attikpo, also known as Essenam, is an Accra-based curator, art consultant and cultural producer from Togo and Benin. She founded the Accra consultancy This No Be Art in 2018. Her work covers contemporary African art, hip-hop culture and the representation of African and Afro-diasporic cultures. She was a resident at ZK/U Berlin in the TURN2 Residencies programme, where she researched Black masculinities through hip hop. She later held a residency at Fonderie Darling in Montreal, linked to Nigra Iuventa.