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Neké Akua in a magenta gown with a long sweeping train, standing between the two halves of a moss-covered Balinese split gate with jungle mountains behind.

Neké Akua in a red gown, fabric sweeping in the wind, on a flower-hung swing above Balinese rice terraces.

Neké Akua holding out the train of her magenta gown so it sweeps across the road, standing barefoot in front of a Balinese split gate beneath a wide blue sky.

Neké Akua in a mustard blazer holding a monogrammed mug, looking off-camera in a warm, art-lined room.

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Hi, I’m Neké Akua

For years I kept a folder on my phone called someday. Hotel rooms with the light coming in a particular way. A chair I couldn’t stop thinking about. A street in Lisbon I walked down twice because the first time felt like I’d rushed it.

This is that folder, opened up. Where I’ve been and what it actually cost. The things I bought once and still use. The rooms I’ve rearranged four times over. The mornings I got right, and the ones I didn’t.

Before any of this was content, it was just my life — six states, a few countries, a calendar that never really clocks out. I wasn’t building a brand. I was just living somewhere different every few years.

I’m not here to sell you a whole life. Just the good parts of mine, in case any of them are useful to you.

More About Me

the four

Four Things I Think About Constantly

Neké Akua seated at a high-rise window, looking out over the Dubai skyline.

“I’ve missed flights, over-packed, and cried in an Airbnb bathroom more than once. None of that made the cut here — just what actually worked.”

Neké Akua · on keeping the good parts

Six spots I’d go back to without thinking twice — a few of them, right below.

the passport

Places That Are Still With Me

All Travel

the actual mileage

Every Trip Starts in Dallas.

Meetings Monday morning, flights Tuesday night — I fly out of DFW more than I’d like to admit. Here’s every stamp so far, and the next one, mid-air.

next flight · dallas → jamaica

DFW · home

🇹🇭Bangkok 🇮🇩Bali 🇬🇧London 🇯🇲Jamaica 🇿🇦Cape Town 🇵🇷Old San Juan 🇫🇷Paris 🇲🇽Tulum 🇪🇬Giza 🇵🇹Lisbon 🇦🇪Dubai

Neké Akua in a pink slip dress against the split yellow-and-magenta walls of Bo-Kaap, Cape Town.

The editCape Town

Three days · February

The One I’d Go Back to Tomorrow

I booked Bo-Kaap for the photographs, which is a shallow reason to go anywhere. I stayed for the woman who sold me koesisters on the corner of Wale Street and told me which houses had been repainted that spring.

Went: Feb 2026
Stayed: 4 nights
Go back: Yes

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