# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kodwo-eshun
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:40:58.271Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kodwo-eshun"
name: "Kodwo Eshun"
slug: "kodwo-eshun"
description: "Kodwo Eshun is a British-Ghanaian writer, theorist and filmmaker. He is perhaps best known for his 1998 book More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction and his association with the art collective The Otolith Group, which he co-founded in 2002 with Anjalika Sagar."
tagline: "British writer (born 1967)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/KodwoEshun_HankShocklee_PaulMiller_DanielBernardRoumain_ChelseaArtMuseum_2005_FlickrUser_Activefree.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1967"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.59
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.516274666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0260602/"
    handle:    "nm0260602"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/38314"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%88_%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "كودو اشون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodwo_Eshun"
    title: "Kodwo Eshun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodwo_Eshun"
    title: "Kodwo Eshun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodwo_Eshun"
    title: "Kodwo Eshun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodwo_Eshun"
    title: "Kodwo Eshun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodwo_Eshun"
    title: "Kodwo Eshun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ee8e0461-e8bf-42b6-b919-3871c65f06db"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113174"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1297475"
    title: "Kodwo Eshun"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump