{"id":243484,"date":"2016-08-27T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=243484"},"modified":"2016-08-27T16:27:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T16:27:00","slug":"nana-awere-damoah-kofi-akpabli-set-for-ticklin-the-sebiticalis-public-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/08\/nana-awere-damoah-kofi-akpabli-set-for-ticklin-the-sebiticalis-public-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Nana Awere Damoah, Kofi Akpabli set for ‘Ticklin\u2019 the Sebiticalis’ public reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

The campaign to promote reading for pleasure among Ghanaians receives a boost with another public reading event to be held in Accra on Saturday, September 3rd 2016.<\/p>\n

Dubbed \u201cTicklin\u2019 the Sebiticalis\u201d, the special book reading takes place in the cosy setting of Jamrock Restaurant, a Jamaican-themed joint near the A&C Mall at East Legon.<\/p>\n

Headlined by Nana Awere Damoah and Kofi Akpabli, the reading offers patrons a lively evening of literary pleasure and though-provoking discussions on Ghanaian contemporary life.<\/p>\n

Kofi Akpabli will charm patrons with excerpts from his books Romancing Ghanaland and Tickling the Ghanaian while Nana Awere Damoah will entice the audience from his repertoire Sebitically Speaking and I Speak of Ghana.<\/p>\n

With 10 books between them, the two writers continue on their mission to make reading hip again, and to take writing and reading to the level of pop culture. They believe that reading should be done for pleasure as well, and not only for exams and industry. According to both writers, the event also aims to diversify the social offerings currently available on the entertainment scene.<\/p>\n

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“Elsewhere, public readings and book signing are top-notch events that receive distinguished patronage. As society is pushing for the consumption of made-in-Ghana goods, let\u2019s not forget about made-in-Ghana books”, they said.<\/p>\n

In their readings so far, the two have received sponsorship from Threadex, WearGhana, Norte Sobolo and AJ’s Housekeeping Services. A special feature about Saturday\u2019s reading is that for the first time, the two are joined by a Guest Reader, Alba Kunado Suprim, author of the Imported Ghanaian and A Place of Beautiful Nonsense.<\/p>\n

\u201cTicklin\u2019 the Sebiticalis\u201d runs between 4.30pm and 7pm, and involves four rounds of readings from the works of the three accomplished Ghanaian authors. There will be interludes of poetry and music.<\/p>\n

About the Authors<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kofi Akpabli\u00a0is a media consultant and travel writer whose latest work has been published in a new Commonwealth Non-Fiction Anthology launched in the UK in May 2016.\u00a0 He is a two-time winner of the CNN\/Multichoice African Journalist for Arts and Culture. Kofi has also won GJA and National awards in Culture and Tourism. He writes a travel column\u00a0Going Places\u00a0in\u00a0The Mirror\u00a0newspaper, published weekly in Accra.<\/p>\n

Amongst his books are:\u00a0Harmattan – a Cultural Profile of Northern Ghana,\u00a0Romancing Ghanaland: the Beauty of Ten Regions,\u00a0A Sense of Savannah – Tales of a Friendly Walk through Northern Ghana, and\u00a0Tickling the Ghanaian – Encounters with Contemporary Culture. Kofi is a member of Faculty, Central University.\u00a0His scholarly interests include the research and dissemination of key values of African culture.\u00a0Kofi Akpabli lives at a village near Accra with his wife and children.<\/p>\n

Nana Awere Damoah\u00a0holds a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Nottingham and a Bachelor’s in Chemical Engineering from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). A British Council Chevening alumnus, Nana works in Nigeria as a Technical Manager.
\nIn 1997, Nana won first prize in the Step Magazine National Writing Competition.<\/p>\n

He is the author of five books:\u00a0Sebitically Speaking,\u00a0I Speak of Ghana,\u00a0Tales from Different Tails,\u00a0Through the Gates of Thought, and\u00a0Excursions in my Mind. His sixth book, Nsempiisms, is due in print later this year and is already available as a free e-book. Nana Awere Damoah is married with three children. He divides his time between Lagos and Tema.<\/p>\n

Alba Suprim has been writing for as long as she can remember and regularly flips through, with a wry smile, the stacks of notebooks that contain what can only be described as the melodrama of her teenage years. She is the author of The Imported Ghanaian and A Place of Beautiful Nonsense. \u00a0She graduated from Escuela International de Cine y Television (EICTV), the Cuban film school, as an Editor and worked on several short and independent film projects in Cuba and London before moving back to Ghana, where she now earns her living writing screenplays, television programmes, producing and directing television commercials.<\/p>\n

She has been on the writing and editing team of the BBC World Services Trust Radio drama, \u2018Story Story, Voices from the Market,\u2019 for over six years. She was a writer and director for the BBC WST television drama, entitled, \u2018Wetin Dey!\u2019She lives in Accra, where she is regularly accused of being Senegalese, Malian, Ivorian, Liberian, Kenya or Zimbabwean, in fact, any other nationality but Ghanaian.<\/p>\n

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