I was born from a Caucasian German mother and a dark African man getting it on long before Kim and Kanye made it mainstream: 1990. May, to be exact. Being the picture of integration, my parents marriage stayed integrated until my mother’s passing in 2013, and until that fateful day my parents did their best to raise and educate me: I attended school in Germany and Canada, studied in London, all while being allowed to nourish my athletic side playing ball, and my nerdy side playing with superheroes and barbies. Yes, I played with barbies too — just like my parents, I was inclusive before it was mainstream. After the education stuff was done with, I decided to throw it all out the window to become a writer: It started with writing scripts for German TV, turned into editing screenplays in Hollywood, and culminated in my first published novel that didn’t make me rich, but allowed me to channel the wrath I felt over my mother’s passing: ‘F*** Life’, by Amidu Omar Njiemoun.

That was in 2014.

Since then, I bounced around between creative gigs, until I found my footing with the TikTok channel @Briefed_, which launched in March 2022 and crossed the million follower mark just one year later. The channel combines my passions of hearing myself talk and mythology, with my life’s mission: Make life fun and meaningful at the same time, aka… edutainment (though… I hate that word). The mission became to make mythology and history accessible, because…: Why in all the hells does mythology and history always have to be so yawn-inducingly boring, as if it’s some kind of rocket science (on that note, why does rocket science always have to be so boring)? I felt like it was about time someone changed that. So here we are:

Making mythology fun.