Ken Kweku Nimo is a Ghanaian researcher, Author and designer. He holds a BA honours in
fashion merchandising and MA in Design from the University of Johannesburg. Ken’s work
underscores the potential of Africa’s budding luxury industry as a catalyst for economic
transformation and the advancement of Africa’s fabled cultural renaissance. His work has been
published in the Journal of Design, Business and Society, and a regular speaker at the
prestigious In Pursuit of Luxury Conference (IPO): a pioneering platform for interdisciplinary
dialogue on luxury. He is a contributing author to MacMillan’s forthcoming title Fashion
Marketing in Emerging Economies and the Reviews Editor for Luxury Studies, a Journal
dedicated to proceedings from IPOL. As researcher, author and design practitioner, Ken is able
to dissect and distil the critical issues of African luxury in a quantitative and practical manner.
