Blitz Bazawule

Blitz Bazawule is a filmmaker and musician born in Accra Ghana and based in Brooklyn New York Blitzs short films Native Sun 2012 and Diasporadical Trilogìa 2016 have premiered at BAM New Voices in Black Cinema His debut feature film The Burial of Kojo was released in 2018 later released on Netflix via Ava DuVernays ARRAY distribution company Bazawule wrote directed coedited and coprouced the film as well as providing the soundtrack As a musician and band leader Bazawule has released 4 studio albums under the name Blitz the Ambassador Stereotype 2009 Native Sun 2011 Afropolitan Dreams 2014 and Diasporadical 2016 as well as the soundtrack album to The Burial of Kojo 2019 and has performed at music festivals such as Roskilde Denmark Solidays France Mawazine Morocco and Sauti za Busara Zanzibar Blitz is a 2016 TED Fellow and recipient of the Vilcek Prize