{"id":195968,"date":"2016-03-04T14:10:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T14:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=195968"},"modified":"2016-03-04T14:10:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T14:10:31","slug":"veep-hosts-abraham-attah-at-flagstaff-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/03\/veep-hosts-abraham-attah-at-flagstaff-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Veep hosts Abraham Attah at Flagstaff House"},"content":{"rendered":"
Vice President, Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, hosted international award winning actor, Abraham Attah, at the Flagstaff House in Accra earlier today, Friday.<\/p>\n
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The 15-year-old returned to Ghana today [Friday] after a week stay in the United States\u00a0that saw him present an award at the\u00a0Oscars and also win the\u00a0Independent Spirit Award for \u201cBest Male Lead\u201d for his breakout performance as a child soldier in \u2018Beasts of No Nation\u2019.<\/p>\n
He also picked up the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor at Venice Film Festival 2015 and the \u201cRising Star Award\u201d at the Black Film Critics Circle this past awards season.<\/p>\n
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Attah had in hand his\u00a0Independent Spirit Award statuette at the presidential residence as he was accompanied by his mother\u00a0to meet the Vice-President.<\/p>\n
In a Facebook post by the Vice President, he described the meeting with young Attah as pleasant and congratulated him for being a fine ambassador of Ghana.<\/p>\n
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By Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Vice President, Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, hosted international award winning actor, Abraham Attah, at the Flagstaff House in Accra earlier today, Friday. The 15-year-old returned to Ghana today [Friday] after a week stay in the United States\u00a0that saw him present an award at the\u00a0Oscars and also win the\u00a0Independent Spirit Award for \u201cBest Male Lead\u201d for his breakout […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[137,11],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n