Mohammed was born in Kumasi, Ghana.  He is a writer and musician whose fiction and essays have been published in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Mississippi Review, Bomb, Gathering of the Tribes and Essence Magazine.  Mohammed is a graduate of Bennington College and lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and two daughters.  His collection of short stories ‘The Prophet of Zongo Street’ is described as a “dazzling collection of stories that calls to mind Ben Okri and Chinua Achebe.  Mohammed Naseehu Ali, the tradition’s acclaimed new practitioner, offers up ten powerful and beautifully rendered tales.  Set primarily on the fictitious Zongo Street – a close-knit community of wonderfully quirky characters to hold tight to superstition, religion and family – these stories are anchored by the uproarious, the embarrassing, the poignant and the rawest moments of life.”

Reference: The Prophet of Zongo Street Published by Harper Collins Copyright @2005