Enam Bosokah is a

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artist. He is known for his ballpoint pen artwork. Bosokah graduated from

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, where he studied sculpture. About his choice of medium, he says that "The pen is very economical; I don’t get to buy a lot of materials and I am good to go. My use of the pen is to prove that those things we underestimate an create great things" Beside the pen, he has worked in other mediums like charcoal and watercolours. His art has been exhibited in and outside Africa. Bosokah has acted as a judge in the BIC Art Master Competition, a competition for African ball-point pen artists, held by

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since 2017. He has made portraits for Wiki Unseen, a

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Wikipedia biographies without an image of the subject. As of 2022, he lives in Accra.

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Artist Enam Bosokah proving the might of the pen
2016 ''Pulse Ghana'' video
Interview
at TRUE AFRICAN ART
Wiki Unseen
at

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, including some of Bosokah's works {{DEFAULTSORT:Bosokah, Enam Living people 20th-century Ghanaian male artists 21st-century Ghanaian male artists Year of birth missing (living people) Ballpoint pen art