Kwame Mensah

Alright, I am Kwame, born in Hackney to Ghanaian parents, raised between Dalston and my aunt's flat in Peckham, where I live now. I did ten years as a youth worker in east London before I became a guide, and I still think of every tour as a conversation, not a lecture. My walks are about the London most visitors miss: the markets, the churches that became mosques, the Caribbean bakeries and Ghanaian chop bars, the streets where the Huguenots, the Jewish tailors and the Bangladeshi families each left their mark. I love jollof, patties and a proper salt beef bagel, and I have strong opinions about all three. I speak English and Twi, the second mostly with my mum. Kids welcome on the day walks. These days you can join me from anywhere: I walk London live with my phone and answer questions on the spot.