[4][5] During a period of exile living in Europe, resulting from political unrest in his native Côte d'Ivoire,[1][2] he worked for magazines such as Africultures and Regards.

[6] From 1997 to 2001, he served as the Official Photographer for the Marché des arts et du spectacle africains (MASA), based in Abidjan.

[7] His photographs have been exhibited in museums and cultural spaces such as the Centre Pompidou[8] and the Musée de l’Histoire de l'Immigration in Paris, France; Fondation Donwahi[2][9] in Abidjan; the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden; the Philadelphia Museum of Art[10][11] in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and the Biennale of Contemporary African Art (Dak'Art)[12] in Dakar, Senegal, and are part of the permanent collections of institutions such as the Fundació Vila Casas[13] in Barcelona, Spain; the Fondation Sindika Dokolo in Luanda, Angola; the Harlem Studio Museum in New York, New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art;[5] the Musée du Quai Branly[14] and the Galeries Photo Fnac in Paris, France, as well as various international private collections.

[2] In 2019, Ananias Leki Dago represented the Côte d'Ivoire at the Biennale di Venezia, in Venice, Italy, participating in the exhibit "Ivory Coast: The Open Shadows of Memory".

[15] Founder of the first international photography festival in Abidjan, Les Rencontres du Sud,[6] and restorer of the negatives of Paul Kodjo - the "Father of Ivorian photography",[16][17][14] Ananias Leki Dago is the author of five publications featuring his photographic works: Ananias Leki-Dago, photographe (Les éditions de l'oeil, 2003), Shebeen Blues (Éditions Gang, 2010), Mabati (Native Intelligence and Goethe-Institut Kenia, 2013), La Nawa (Éditions Gang, Conseil Régional de la Nawa, 2016), and Rainy Days Abidjan (Éditions Éburnie, 2019).