{"id":203586,"date":"2016-04-01T14:04:32","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T14:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=203586"},"modified":"2016-04-01T14:04:32","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T14:04:32","slug":"tedxaccra-speaker-profile-ama-asantewa-diaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=203586","title":{"rendered":"TEDxAccra speaker profile &#8211; Ama Asantewa Diaka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once a networking and systems administrator, now a writer, spoken word artist, content creator &amp; a designer. Legitimate love-child of creativity and flair, creative director of Yobbings &amp; Alikoto Clothing and programs director of Love Rocks Organization.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Words live inside of me. I cough them out and spank them into shape. I am an ounce of perfection and a pound of try again. A poet who usually addresses politics, feminity, societal issues, relationships etc with her poems and several others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Why you should listen<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because on the quest to becoming great, by trying and failing and trying again and again, I have, and I still am, discovering a wealth of information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Quote from Ama<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;You don\u2019t need a multitude backing you or a hefty purse to start anything, all you need is the passion to take a first step. Broke or singled out? Start anyway.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>About TEDxAccra <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">TEDxAccra is annual event, where thinkers and doers of our community are gathered to create and share ideas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year\u2019s TEDx will come off from\u00a0April 19\u00a0to 23, 2016. The event\u00a0seeks to develop and leverage the TED experience at a community level, bring together innovative thinkers to connect and discuss great ideas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At TEDxAccra, participants will take part in a TED-like experience that will ultimately equip and inspire them into boundless possibilities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The concept is to reflect ideas and inspire thinking of a new generation of African thinkers and leaders, presenting to an audience committed to engaging and reengaging in an active and meaningful manner with the continent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2013<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: TEDxAccra<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once a networking and systems administrator, now a writer, spoken word artist, content creator &amp; a designer. Legitimate love-child of creativity and flair, creative director of Yobbings &amp; Alikoto Clothing and programs director of Love Rocks Organization. Words live inside of me. I cough them out and spank them into shape. I am an ounce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":203589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-showbiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/203589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}