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Tickling the Ghanaian: Encounters with Contemporary Culture |
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Kofi Akpabli retains Arts and Culture Title at CNN Journalists Awards |
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 Kofi Akpabli, from Ghana, has been awarded the Arts and Culture Award at this year’s CNN MultiChoice African Journalist 2011 Awards ceremony. The award was presented by Mwambu Wanendeya, Vice President and Head of Communications, Ericsson sub Saharan Africa.
Kofi, who is freelance for Daily Graphic, Ghana, won for his story ‘What is right with Akpeteshie?’, which was chosen from among 1407 entries from 42 nations across the African continent. By this feat, the winner has defended the same category he won in Uganda last year.
The Awards, which rotate location each year in tribute to their pan-African credentials, were held at a Gala ceremony hosted by CNN and MultiChoice at The Sandton Sun Hotel, Johannesburg, South Africa this evening, Saturday 25th June.
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Book Review - A Sense of Savannah |
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My eleven years of stay in the north of Ghana revealed varied experiences, various people, landscape and languages. I guess too many people equate the North to Tamale and sometimes to Bolgatanga . Sometimes we hear on the news that something has happened in Sandema in the UPPER WEST REGION. For those of us who know, this hits us in the face since Sandema is in the UPPER EAST REGION!
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Art and Politics - A Splash of German Experience |
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Show me a political organisation and I will show you a related body of artworks that has been crafted to communicate group aspiration. Now, if you are thinking NDC-NPP (here we go again), let us help stretch your horizon a bit. The above assertion can be obtained the world over, and in Germany, art and politics actually fly. Indeed, to be politically correct in this country one needs more than a little dose of cultural savvy. ‘In our society one must be cultural to be relevant,’ said a senior government official.
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