Award-winning Ghanaian author Elizabeth-Irene Baitie will this weekend mount the stage to delight book lovers as the latest guest reader of the DAkpabli Public Reading Campaign. The University of Ghana, Legon Campus edition event is dubbed \u2018\u2019Tickling Legon with Nsempiisms\u2019\u2019 and takes place on Saturday March 25th at the Alumni Centre, Ecobank Legon.<\/p>\n
Baitie is expected to feature along the regular stars Nana Awere Damoah and Kofi Akpabli in their first readathon of this second quarter. A medical laboratory director as well as mother of three children, she lives in Accra with her husband Rami. Awards she has won for her novels includes the Macmillan Writer’s Prize for Africa and the Burt Award for African Literature.<\/p>\n
The guest reader is expected to thrill the university audience with readings from her works such as A Saint in Brown Sandals, The Twelfth Heart, The Dorm Challenge and Rattling in the Closet.<\/p>\n
Ahead of the event, students and lecturers alike are excited to catch the National Readathon train in their own backyard.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are going to be there in our numbers,\u201d said Dr. Mawuli Adjei, a Senior Lecturer at the English department. \u201cA year ago, I was among the participants at their public reading at East Legon and it was an evening of laughter and learning.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to Marie-Franz Nyameke Fordjoe, a Level 400 Political Science student and hostess of the literary program Read A Book on Radio Univers, the event on Legon campus has been long overdue. \u201cI cannot believe that the DAkpabli Readathon passed us by and visited KNUST last September. I also cannot wait to see their new guest reader, Elizabeth-Irene\u201d.<\/p>\n
The DAkpabli Readathon promotes book reading for pleasure as well as local authorship. Besides holding public reading events within Accra, the team has also gone to Kumasi, Ho and Tema. The Readathon campaign by the two authors has received local and international press coverage with ChinAfrican magazine doing a special feature on them in their January edition for 2017.<\/p>\n
Between them, the two Ghanaian authors have published 12 books. Nana Damoah has recently been voted \u2018Author of the Month\u2019 by KWEE, a Liberian Literary magazine, while Kofi Akpabli\u2019s latest work \u2018Made In Nima\u2019 has won a place in an African anthology featuring writers from 14 countries which was published by the Commonwealth in London.<\/p>\n
In their readings so far, the two have received sponsorship from THREADEX, Aky3de3, MTN, Unicorn Rentals, WearGhana, Norte Sobolo, Lincar, Sasa Clothing, Fali\u2019s Fruit Bay and AJ’s Housekeeping Services.<\/p>\n
Elizabeth-Irene Baitie becomes the third guest reader in the row, having taken over from Dr. Ruby Goka, a celebrated author and dentist. The first DAkpabli guest was Alba Sumprim, author and film producer.<\/p>\n
During her guest reader tenure, Elizabeth-Irene Baitie is expected to star at all DAkpabli Readathon events. \u201cGetting that phone call to come on board was such a thrill. It\u2019s a fine opportunity, joining a laudable initiative to bring reading and writing closer to our people. I just can\u2019t wait to start working with the team.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cTickling Legon with Nsempisms\u201d kicks off at 5:30 pm prompt.<\/p>\n
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By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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