Since 2022, Owusu has hosted the African Dawn podcast, covering "untold stories" from Africa's cultural history as well as current trends in the arts world.
[3] He attended Adisadel College, Cape Coast,[4] going on to do postgraduate studies in Political Science and Pre Colonial African Social Formations at the London School of Economics (1980–83).
[5][2] Continuing to be based in England, in the 1980s, Owusu co-founded the pan-African poetry and music group, African Dawn, together with Sheikh Gueye and Wanjiku Kiarie, later joined by Nii Noi Nortey,[6] Merle Collins, Wala Danga, and Vico Mensah.
[4][7] Described as "modern-day griots",[8] African Dawn released four albums, and among other activities worked with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o on the 1984 stage production The Trial of Dedan Kimathi.
[4] Among the numerous films Owusu has directed are Love in a Cold Climate (1990),[16] Segrin Africa (1993) and, from 2003, with the multi-media production house Creative Storm[17] and Mildred Samuel,[18] Water is Life (2003), The Lights Have Gone Out Again (2009),[19] Ghana's Plastic Waste Menace (2009), Singing For Freedom (2010), Environmental Health Channel (2013) and the Maternal Health Channel Television Series (2013),[20][21][22] including screenings at the first Environmental Film Festival of Accra.