{"id":265728,"date":"2016-11-07T06:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T06:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=265728"},"modified":"2016-11-07T06:00:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T06:00:23","slug":"afrocentric-obama-book-reading-event-at-gij-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=265728","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Afrocentric Obama&#8217; book reading event at GIJ [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author of &#8216;The\u00a0Afrocentric Obama and Lessons on Political Campaigning&#8217; book,\u00a0Dr. Etse Sikanku, on\u00a0Friday, November 4, held a book reading at the Ghana Institution of Journalism (GIJ) in Accra.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/7249b37c-4874-43d0-bd85-db8e03daac64.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-265733\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/7249b37c-4874-43d0-bd85-db8e03daac64.jpg\" alt=\"7249b37c-4874-43d0-bd85-db8e03daac64\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The event was\u00a0aimed at inculcating the habit of reading among Ghanaians, and it was held at the forecourt of the institution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/4d973882-1649-4abb-8351-aee5cac6fe77.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-265734\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/4d973882-1649-4abb-8351-aee5cac6fe77.jpg\" alt=\"4d973882-1649-4abb-8351-aee5cac6fe77\" width=\"600\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The event was\u00a0followed by a book sale and signing ceremony at the same venue on Saturday, November 5, 2016.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/e1424611-5b25-41a7-b305-6bf57c2f103a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-265735\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/e1424611-5b25-41a7-b305-6bf57c2f103a.jpg\" alt=\"e1424611-5b25-41a7-b305-6bf57c2f103a\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Afrocentric Obama and lessons on political campaigning\u2019 was launched at the British Council in Ghana on October 8, 2016.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/20830e40-1c4d-4590-bfdb-008294d40b6d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-265736\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/20830e40-1c4d-4590-bfdb-008294d40b6d.jpg\" alt=\"20830e40-1c4d-4590-bfdb-008294d40b6d\" width=\"600\" height=\"377\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The book presents President of America, Barack Obama from an African perspective, and his breakthrough in politics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/4a2847a8-ebbc-4cc3-a83b-2723fcc119f2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-265731\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/4a2847a8-ebbc-4cc3-a83b-2723fcc119f2.jpg\" alt=\"4a2847a8-ebbc-4cc3-a83b-2723fcc119f2\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sikanku in his book explained how Obama&#8217;s African roots also played a very critical role in his success story.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author of &#8216;The\u00a0Afrocentric Obama and Lessons on Political Campaigning&#8217; book,\u00a0Dr. Etse Sikanku, on\u00a0Friday, November 4, held a book reading at the Ghana Institution of Journalism (GIJ) in Accra. The event was\u00a0aimed at inculcating the habit of reading among Ghanaians, and it was held at the forecourt of the institution. The event was\u00a0followed by a book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":265732,"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":[2],"tags":[11980,11981,3],"class_list":["post-265728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-afrocentric-obama","tag-dr-etse-sikanku","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265728","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=265728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/265732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}