Delali Amegah is a French-Togolese-Beninese writer, journalist, filmmaker, and artist based between Luxembourg and Berlin. Her work explores Afropean and Black identity, race, class, and religion across film, poetry, prose and photography.

Delali is the creator of ScriptLit, a new literary and film movement and genre focused on making screenplay books a new book category and a recognised literary form for readers and TV and Film enthusiasts while empowering storytellers and screenwriters to share their stories how they wish and earn income directly, no gatekeepers required.

She was featured in Teen Vogue’s Black Girl Magic campaign and won the Prix Laurence for poetry.

One of her screenplays was shortlisted in 2022 by Stage 32 and the Black Boy / Black Girl Writes Mentorship Initiative, created by Mike Gauyo, a writer on the HBO series Insecure by Issa Rae.

She was part of the production team for the short film Black Joy, directed by Kemi Fatoba for DADDY Magazine. In 2023, she was selected as one of the Routes In x Soho House Creative Mentorship Initiative. In July 2024, she presented her first exhibition titled Afropean Girl, a photography series in collaboration with photographer Brian Ngugi, exploring the impact of discrimination and racism on the lives of Black women in Europe, supported by the pfd Kreuzberg.

Delali is also the co-editor of the Togetherness anthology by Poetry Meets in Berlin.

As a journalist, Delali has written for magazines based in the US, the UK, Luxembourg, Germany and Ivory Coast, in both English and French. She writes for ELLE Luxembourg. 

She continues to develop films, screenplays, and art projects centered on Afropean and Black identity.

Press :

• Tageblatt - Luxembourg : Artists between Luxembourg and Berlin Delali Amegah: afropéenne. (full article available upon request).

• On Art Media : Afropean Girl exhibition.