His writing draws from the West African griot tradition, oral history, cultural memory, and the responsibility to tell the truth of a people. That tradition runs through everything: the Afrofuturist mythology of the Bee Mann series, the griot-registered nonfiction of Block Lore, the literary paranormal of You Can’t Ghost the Dead, and the Afropolitan memoir mapping his passage through the world.

In Bee Mann, his most recent venture, Freddy Will brings that same sensibility to audiences: raw, layered, cinematic. Founder of Badson Publishing, distributed through African Books Collective. Multiple published titles. Eight countries. One voice. Wilfred Kanu Jr. is a Sierra Leonean-American author, Grammy-nominated emcee, producer, and publisher. Born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, raised across West Africa and North America, now rooted in Berlin, Germany.

Some of his existing titles include: My Book of Chrymes, The Dark Road from Romarond, Hip Hop Kru Zade: Path Beyond Clichés, Crime Rhymez, Theatre Dance & Poetry, Brazenitout (volumes one through four), Theatre Dance & Poetry: A Return to Love, and The Sandmann’s Journal.