Chief Moomen

thumb Abdul Moomen Muslim (born 16 December 1990) known professionally as Chief Moomen is a Ghanaian poet, playwright and creative entrepreneur.He is best known for creating the Ghanaian historical epic - WogbeJeke: Our Journey, a theatrical reenactment of the history of Ghana from ancient to modern times, directed by Joyce Anima Misa Amoah. In March 2017, the play was chosen as the official theatre showpiece to celebrate Ghana’s 60th Anniversary. Quotes Chief Moomen is a poet, a playwright and a creative entrepreneur. I am also a Pan-Africanist as well as a socialist with capitalist taste. Just kidding. I believe the world is diverse for a reason, so I strive to accommodate and respect divergence in all of nature’s manifestations. I don’t think any people, culture or cilivilsation is inherently better than others. I also love good stories, good food, good women—and men. In fact, good people. I write for a living. I write poems which I perform at all sorts of occasions for some not-too-meager remuneration. I also write plays which I stage with the hope of selling a lot of tickets to audiences and making a lot of money. But it has only been a hellish pit of debt! My mind is a battlefield of ideas rioting to break free. My heart is an exploding volcano of molten passion. I am indeed a young man in a furious hurry. Let me just simply state that I believe the mission—with regards to my artistic career—God has given me in this world is to tell Ghanaian and African stories through theatre, film and publications in ways that elevate the confidence and consciousness of the African. My view of mentorship is really observing from a distance. Personally, the works of most of my mentors inspire me; so, to speak. Or just being within their presence, I learn. In the same way I know just by the work I am doing it inspires a lot of people. Poetry is feeling. It’s an expression of ideas and emotions through the beauty and melody of words. Poetry is like a sweet breeze; you can’t quite grasp what it is but you can feel its sensation. Poetry is all sense and nonsense. he talks about what poetry is. For a long time I couldn’t tell what my greatest fear was. I lived my life like a big engine on a highway speeding towards a destination. My focus is and has always been to fulfill my life’s mission. It’s a question I hardly think about… hmmm…. maybe DEATH before I achieve what I hope to. I have asked myself this a number of times. I guess there are some everyday choices you make in life that, maybe, you shouldn’t have made them on hindsight. But I feel that generally every major turn in life we take leads to our destiny. So, in the bigger questions of life I don’t think I would do anything that much differently. But on the smaller questions, I am sure there are a lot. External links Category:Living people Category:1990 births Category:Poets from Ghana