On a wide suburban street in Canberra’s Weston Creek district, with utes in driveways and front yards dotted with children’s toys, Genesis Owusu greets me at the door of his discreet, tan-coloured bungalow. His living room is neat, understatedly furnished, with timber venetian blinds closed against the afternoon sun.
In contrast to his swaggering, aggressively cool onstage persona, the Ghanaian-Australian artist, born Kofi Owusu-Ansah, is disarmingly down-to-earth. As we prepare to go, he tells me I am wearing the right shoes for our walk and asks if I was last in Canberra on a school trip to Questacon.
