Kofi Ofori-Mensah

Kofi Ofori-Mensah is a Ghanaian writer, researcher, and multidisciplinary professional based in London, England. He works across diaspora studies, behavioural finance, and neurodiversity advocacy. He founded NeuroDigital Support, a UK initiative on digital access for neurodivergent people, and has published several books and academic papers on African diaspora identity, microfinance psychology, and digital exclusion. He is currently a postgraduate researcher at the University of Roehampton, where he won the Futures Award in 2026.

Early life and Education

Ofori-Mensah was born on 15th September 1991 in Ghana and attended. Mfantsipim School in Cape Coast, one of the country's most prestigious boys' secondary schools. He earned a BSc in Business Administration (Accounting) from Central University, Ghana (2007–2011). Between 2014 and 2016, he completed an MBA in Finance through Sikkim Manipal University, India. C His thesis, The Psychology of Ghanaian Loan Clients and Its Impact on Loan Repayment: A Case Study of Pan-African Savings and Loans, applied behavioural finance theory to credit repayment behaviour at a Ghanaian microfinance institution, combining survey research with institutional financial data. Ofori-Mensah, Kofi, The Psychology Of Ghanaian Loan Clients and How It Affects Loan Repayments: A Case Study Of Pan-African Savings And Loans (January 01, 2017). From 2025 to 2026 he studied for an MSc in Digital Marketing at the University of Roehampton, UK. His dissertation used thematic analysis to explore how autistic and neurodivergent adults in the UK experience social media marketing. He is registered with a predicted merit/distinction outcome.

University of Roehampt

Ofori-Mensah Joined the University of Roehampton and was a Project Coordinator and Research Assistant in January 2026. He worked on local air quality and environmental conditions, supported the design, field-field-testing, and monitoring of green infrastructure projects, and coordinated work between small and Medium sized interprises, local authorities, and academic partners.

Research Focus

Ofori-Mensah's Research fall in three Areas.

His MBA-era work looked at how borrower psychology and the stated purpose of a loan affect repayment performance in Ghanaian financial institutions. Using a cross-sectional survey of 800 respondents analysed in SPSS, the study found a significant positive correlation between borrower behaviour and repayment performance, with borrower psychology emerging as a strong predictor of loan recovery. Ofori-Mensah, Kofi, The Psychology Of Ghanaian Loan Clients and How It Affects Loan Repayments: A Case Study Of Pan-African Savings And Loans (January 01, 2017).

He has also written on the social challenges facing Ghanaian immigrant communities in the UK, focusing on parenting, youth crime, family breakdown, and the friction between traditional Ghanaian practices and British legal norms.

His MSc dissertation and his work at NeuroDigital Support look at how digital platforms and social media marketing systems exclude or underserve neurodivergent users, including people with autism spectrum conditions and attention deficit disorders.

Real Estate (2019 - 2025)

In January 2019, Ofori-Mensah joined Prabon Greenfields Estate, a gated luxury development in Kumasi, as head of sales and marketing, a role he held until January 2025. The development is a private community of 500 detached villas with international-standard infrastructure, and one of the larger high-end residential projects in the Ashanti Region. He ran marketing plans that delivered 20% annual sales growth, built data-driven lead generation campaigns on digital platforms, and managed brand positioning and reporting.

Care Work (2025 - Present)

Since 2025, he has worked as a support worker at Brookhaven Care in the UK, managing caseloads of people with autism and complex needs and using de-escalation techniques in high-pressure care settings.

Writing and Publications.

Ofori-Mensah has written books, preprint papers, and published commentary on African poetry, diaspora social issues, behavioural finance, and neurodiversity and digital inclusion.

Books

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  • Shattered Bonds: Rethinking Diaspora Parenting and Youth Crime in the UK; An African Community in Crisis — examines the disproportionate representation of young people of Ghanaian descent in UK crime statistics. Drawing on court cases, community testimony, and academic research, the book traces the pattern to unprepared immigrant parents, the erosion of extended-family support networks, single mothers under economic strain, and a clash between authoritarian Ghanaian parenting norms and British child protection law and children's rights. It closes with a call for community-led parenting programmes and a practical action guide for families and community groups.
  • Neurodiversity Beyond the West: Digital Inclusion, Culture, and Disability Justice in Africa — argues that neurodiversity scholarship and digital accessibility standards are overwhelmingly built around Western, Anglophone, high-bandwidth users, despite Africa's large neurodivergent population. It introduces the idea of a "postcolonial neurodigital condition," describing a triple exclusion of neurodivergent Africans by cultural stigma, under-resourced health and disability infrastructure, and digital platforms designed without them in mind. Combining a critique of colonial psychiatry with case studies on autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and intellectual disability across African contexts, it ends by proposing the Neurodigital Accra Declaration, a draft continental policy framework for cognitive inclusion.
  • NeuroDigital Support: Reimagining Technology, Inclusion, and Human Belonging in the Digital Age — draws on Ofori-Mensah's own work as a support worker to set out the "Algorithmic Exclusion Principle": that digital systems optimised for a statistically average user will, by design, underserve anyone whose cognitive, sensory, or behavioural profile differs from that norm. Part investigative journalism, part research synthesis, part policy proposal, it covers autistic and ADHD user experience, dyslexic reading design, bias in AI training data, and the use of emotion-recognition AI in hiring, and proposes a NeuroDigital Rights Framework as a model for amending the EU AI Act.
  • The Invisible Struggle: Why Ghanaians in the Diaspora Are Suffering in Silence — a non-fiction book on the psychological, social, and economic difficulties facing Ghanaian immigrants in the UK, with particular attention to mental health stigma, isolation, and the lack of support structures in diaspora communities. Available via Amazon Uk.
  • The Invisible Users: How Digital Platforms Exclude Neurodivergent Minds and What Must Change — his most recent book, arguing that mainstream digital platforms are structurally inaccessible to neurodivergent users and calling for reform in digital design and platform governance. Available via Amazon UK.

Academic Paper and Preprints.

  • Ofori-Mensah, K. (2017/uploaded 2026). The Psychology of Ghanaian Loan Clients and How It Affects Loan Repayments: A Case Study of Pan-African Savings and Loans. SSRN (DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.6287360) and OSF preprint (DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/5jcwb_v1). Uses a cross-sectional survey of 800 respondents and SPSS analysis to show a significant correlation between borrower psychology and repayment performance.
  • Ofori-Mensah, K. (2017/uploaded 2026). The Future of Ghanaian Microenterprise: How a Model Small Business Should Look Like. Preprint, DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/ny7st_v1. Ofori-Mensah, Kofi, The Future Of Ghanaian Microenterprise: How A Model Small Business Should Look Like (March 01, 2017).
  • Ofori-Mensah, K. (2026). Algorithmic Exclusion and Neurodivergent Users: How Platform Design Shapes Belonging and Mental Health Online. Preprint, DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.20587002. Ofori-Mensah, Kofi, Algorithmic Exclusion and Neurodivergent Users: How Platform Design Shapes Belonging and Mental Health Online (May 07, 2026).
  • Ofori-Mensah, K. (2026). Diagnosis Based on Content: The Role of Social Media in Late Autism and ADHD Self-Identification Among Adults in the UK. Preprint, DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.20586938. Ofori-Mensah, Kofi, Diagnosis Based on Content: The Role of Social Media in Late Autism and ADHD Self-Identification Among Adults in the UK (May 07, 2026).

Commentary And Journalism

  • Ofori-Mensah, K. (2026). Rethinking Diaspora Parenting and Youth Crime in the UK: A Case of the Ghanaian Community. The Hub Web, 21 February 2026. The article looks at why youth crime happens among British-Ghanaian young people, drawing on court cases, academic research, and community accounts. It points to unprepared immigrant parents, the collapse of extended family support, high rates of family breakdown among single mothers, and the clash between traditional Ghanaian parenting and British child protection law, and calls for community-led parenting programmes and targeted support for single mothers.
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  • Exclusive interview with Kofi Ofori-Mensah, Head of Sales and Marketing at Prabon Greenfields Estate. Business Insider Africa, 2024. Covers his leadership of marketing and sales at Prabon Greenfields, his use of digital platforms for brand building, and his views on the Ghanaian property market.

NeuroDigital Support

Ofori-Mensah founded NeuroDigital Support, a UK-based, trademarked initiative working on digital accessibility and inclusion for neurodivergent people.

Its work ties into his research at Roehampton on how social media marketing systems affect autistic and neurodivergent adults, and into his book The Invisible Users.

NeuroDigital Support is listed alongside the University of Roehampton in his ORCID and SSRN research profiles.