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born 1982 Ghana

Samuel Bazawule (born 19 April 1982), known professionally as Blitz Bazawule and Blitz the Ambassador, is a Ghanaian filmmaker, author and a visual artist.

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Also known as: Blitz Bazawule

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Telling my story honestly with openness and vulnerability.

It's the words African and cosmopolitan. That's who we are.

I've always felt hip-hop as a culture hasn't really yet embraced its international roots.

No matter how much you have, there's always a reason for it not to be enough.

Hip-hop can be said to extend all the way back to the slave-trade movement of people from Africa to the Caribbean as a conduit.

Afro-centric hip-hop can make a comeback when the people are ready.

I 've never really thought about creating like that.

I’m everywhere but nowhere at the same time.

There's always some wild thing that happens.

You assume that having a picture that's in the tens of millions [of dollars] will be easy, but money is funny.

It’s unrealistic to churn out a bunch of material without sacrificing quality.

I feel like more and more young Africans are beginning to assert themselves and speak about their experience the way they see it.

To tell a straight story is the most boring way, in my opinion.

It's about looking in the mirror and accepting who I am.

I've kind of been medium agnostic in that sense, because it's just always about a story worth telling.

I love that about us -- certainly continental Africans, and the ability to imagine on that level.

I'm very present. I'm always in the moment. And when I have an idea my job is simply to sit down and filter it through my abilities. My mommy always said, ‘Use all your talents.

The African Writers Series made it possible for lots of us who are young African writers now.

I wouldn't touch anything that I couldn't make mine.

It’s no longer six or seven people on stage, it's a couple hundred, but they’ve all still got to play in tune; they’ve got to play in harmony.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Blitz the Ambassador (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.