Dami Khadijah [pronounced ‘Kah-dee-ja’] is a London-based Strategy Director, Creative Director and writer working across culture, audiences and media.
Her practice begins with insight: finding the human tension beneath a brief, question or observation, then developing the strategic foundation, creative framework and words that allow the idea to take form.
Her career spans branded content, publishing and social-first media, with experience across BBC StoryWorks, CNN, Refinery29, and Twitter, alongside global brands and cultural institutions.
Across her independent work, Dami explores the intersection of art, anthropology and the human experience through writing, moving image, cultural programming and original formats. Her work includes the Tribeca-selected film ‘Allumuah’, African cinema platform Mother Drum and visual project ‘Born in the West, Raised by the East’.
She is also the founder and creative lead of an upcoming space, a selective multidisciplinary house and creative practice developing original work, cultural experiments and chosen commissions.
Screenwriter x Prose / 2020 For BFI x Nowness x British Council
Award-winning experiential film set in Ghana & London directed by Curtis Essel. I developed the concept for the prose to weave ancient forms of
storytelling from four early African tribes; Yoruba, Kikuyu, Xhosa and Fante from west, east and south of Africa. The idea was to pull from traditional proverbs from many of the Sub-Saharan African nations, weaving them together to tell one complete full story.
The use of non-English narration was intentional so it was clear who the message was to. It was also to avoid the use of what many understand to be ‘plain language.’ Proverbs, parables, and fables; an ancient form of storytelling across Africa, are still very much in use today.
Commissioned by NOWNESS in partnership
with BFI & British Council, the film premiered at Tribeca Film festival & won the Vimeo
Staff Pick Award for film of the year in collaboration with Philadelphia’s BlackStar Film Festival.
