Oswald, Nana Asaase to open Storymoja Ghana

Prof. Lade Wosornu is set to deliver the memorial lecture which will be opened with performances by Ghanaian spoken word artistes, Nana Asaase and Oswald Okaitei in an elegy conceptualised and directed by the Kenyan story teller, Maimouna Jallow.

The StoryMoja Festival which is usually held in Kenya will be held in Ghana from the September 21 to 25 2016, at the W.E.B Dubois Centre in Accra. 

The festival which attracts over 6,000 participants in Kenya, was founded by Muthoni Garland, Kenyan writer, publisher and editor who along with a group of writers and the festival patron, Dr. Auma Obama, are committed to publishing contemporary East African writing of world-class standard.

Spearheading Storymoja Ghana Festvial, son of late Prof. Kofi Awoonor, Afetsi Awoonor said the Ghanaian StoryMoja team, will focus on nurturing, showcasing and celebrating ideas and creativity that will shape Africa’s future by bringing together writers, opinion leaders and role models from the creative arts world. 

“Although creative literary talents abound in Ghana, there are very few platforms for literary performances and discussions, more so on a platform as renowned as the StoryMoja festival,” he said. 

As part of the StoryMoja Festival, the Ghanaian team will be in charge of the Start-a-Library initiative which aims to refurbish and create new libraries for schools, as well as to rehabilitate the open air theatre at the Centre for National Culture in Accra to make it more attractive to visitors.

The organisers also pointed out that the discussion sessions of the festival would be used to tackle diverse issues facing Africa/Ghana from a Pan-African perspective. Beside this, the festival will also include memorial lectures, book launches, meet the author sessions as well as create an avenue for networking.