Delali Amegah is a Beninese-Togolese-French multidisciplinary creative and journalist. Her work explores identity and culture across film, photography, poetry and prose in both French and English.

A Soho House Mentee, Delali is the creator of ScriptLit, a groundbreaking literary genre and film movement dedicated to screenplays and screenplay books as a new book category and recognised literary forms for books, TV and Film enthusiasts while empowering storytellers and screenwriters to share their stories without gatekeepers.

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

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 July 2024, she presented her first exhibition titled Afropean Girl, a photography series, exploring the impact of discrimination and racism on the lives of Black women in Europe, supported by the pfd Kreuzberg. Her photography series has been part of the Young Luxembourgish Artists Vol.5. collective exhibition. One of her works is featured as Foto of the Day on Fotografiska Emerging by Fotografiska, the Contemporary Museum of Photography, Art & Museum.

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

Her short film, YOVODEVI, was shot in Benin and Togo and screened in various cinemas 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 was the publication co-coordinator for ELLE Luxembourg issue n°8 and a contributing editor for both the digital and print publication.

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