Tag: Ama Ata Aidoo
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Soyinka, Aidoo, Ngugi give tributes to Prof Keorapetse Kgositsile
Prof Keorapetse Kgositsile was given a state funeral at the Heroes Acre, West Park Cemetery in Johannesburg, South Africa on January 16, 2018. There were also tributes to the fallen hero by Wole Soyinka, Ama Ata Aidoo, and Ngugi Wa Thiong’o. Prof Keorapetse Kgositsile, popularly known as Bra Willie, was the South African Poet Laureate…
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Ama Ata Aidoo Centre for Creative Writing opens in Accra, Ghana
The Ama Ata Aidoo Centre for Creative Writing, at the African University College of Communications opened with a colourful ceremony in Accra, Ghana on March 16, 2017. Poet and writer Nii Ayikwei Parkes is the director of the new centre. The African University College of Communications (AUCC) founded by former Ghanaian minister Kojo Yankah is…
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Joe Frazier kicks off Ghana Voices Series 2015
The Ghana Voices Series is a monthly event where authors read their work to an audience that was started in 2010 at the Niagara Plus Hotel in Osu in Accra. That first event in June of that year featured Martin Egblewogbe reading from his collection of short stories, Mr Happy and the Hammer of God.…