Kumerica––a term often associated with the music scene––revolves around the encounter between the local culture of Kumasi, a Ghanian city in the Ashanti region, and American urban culture. Mensah addresses this cultural shift by depicting local youth dressed in American-influenced street style posing before traditional Ghanian patterned fabrics, as traditional in West African portraiture. Mensah takes this a step further by inventing his own patterns that draw on themes of nature, reinforcing his empowered “flowers” who take center stage in his paintings.