After a highly successful book reading event recently held at the cosy JamRock Restaurant, Accra, authors Kofi Akpabli and Nana Awere Damoah head to Kumasi to continue with their public reading campaign on Saturday September 24 2016.<\/p>\n
The event is scheduled for 5:30 pm at Kumapley Hall, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).<\/p>\n
Dubbed “Romancing Oseikrom Sebitically,” it offers a lively evening of literary pleasure and though-provoking discussions on Ghanaian contemporary life.<\/p>\n
Patrons from within and outside KNUST campus are expected to be charmed and enthralled by excerpts from books such as Sebitically Speaking, Romancing Ghanaland, Tickling the Ghanaian and I Speak of Ghana.<\/p>\n
This is the first time the duo is performing outside Ghana\u2019s capital and the Kumasi session is set to snowball into future readings in the other regions.<\/p>\n
For the second time running, the reading pair are featuring Alba Sumprim, author of The Imported Ghanaian and A Place of Beautiful Nonsesense as their Guest Reader. Alba\u2019s sensational outing at the Accra event is still talk of the town.<\/p>\n
While the Jamrock event scored very high in the number of high society patrons which included Deputy Minister of Tourism Dzifa Gomashie, PPP running mate, Bridget Dzorgbenuku, Prof. Adams Bodomo, Prof. H. Kwasi Prempeh, and Eugenia Tachie-Menson, the Kumasi event is expected to record the largest audience ever at any book reading in Ghana.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2018As intellectual entertainers, we have been receiving requests to come out of Accra. We cannot continue not to serve other regions. We have to do this, and Oseikrom is deserving of this historical first\u2019\u2019, said Kofi Akpabli, communication lecturer and CNN Award winning journalist.<\/p>\n
Under their Dakpabli Readathon, the campaign by the two authors to promote reading for pleasure among Ghanaians started in 2011. 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.<\/p>\n
\u2018We believe that reading should be done for pleasure as well, and not only for exams and industry. By doing this we also aim to diversify the social offerings currently available on our entertainment scene\u201d, stated Nana Damoah who is also a chemical Engineer and an alumnus of KNUST College of Engineering.<\/p>\n
In their readings so far, the two have received sponsorship from THREADEX, WearGhana, Norte Sobolo, AJ’s Housekeeping Services, Lincacar, WatsupTek, hyperActive and MTN, the latest sponsor, who streamed the JamRock event live.<\/p>\n
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By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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