Press
Photographer Texas Isaiah believes in the caring image: a product of the connectivity between the sitter, the storyteller behind the camera, and the environment. In “I May Not See Myself as Others See Me Not,” he pays witness to the Detroit-based Nigerian interdisciplinary artist KESSWA as they perform different facets of themself. KESSWA embodies the priestess, the neophyte, the magician, and the time traveler, aspects of childhood developed through vivid dreams and of adulthood through ancestral reverence.
2022, Vogue
Kesswa and Nova Zaii take it weirder still on Chasing Delerium, a spirit-poem tripping on jaggedy drums and a cloud of nitrous
2022, CRACK Magazine
“With the help of Nova Zaii, the singer-songwriter Kesiena “KESSWA” Wanogho creates the gorgeous “Chasing Delirium,” a spoken-word “covert blues” deeply informed by noisy, sculpted dissonances; it’s both funk and abstract art”
2022, Pitchfork
Kesswa turns inward with contemplative neo-soul
2020, Metro Times
In Kesswa’s Music, Detroit Techno and Nigerian Gospel Find Common Ground
2020, WDET
Experimental Singer Kesswa Merges Disparate Influences on “Soften”
2019, Bandcamp
New Sound: Kesswa – Soften
2019, Twisted Soul Music
Stream Grammy Nominee Mark Guiliana’s Shigeto Remix of “BUD” Featuring Kesswa
2019, Next Bop
Society: Manifest Destiny exhibit highlights Afrofuturism
2019, Detroit News
My Music is a Happy Accident”: An Interview with Kesswa
2019, Michigan Quarterly Review
PREMIERE: Detroit's Kesswa gets down to earth in 'To Find'
2018, Metro Times
The 12 Songs You Need to Hear This Week
2018, OkayAfrica