Damoah, Akpabli hold reading session
Writers Nana Awere Damoah and Kofi Akpabli have held a reading session dubbed 'Tickling the Nsempiisms' at the Vidya Bookstore in Osu, Accra.
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A small but devoted group of book enthusiasts turned up for the event which Nana Damoah later described as “one of their best book readings.”
The pair started their collaborative activity in 2014 and read in public places to book lovers three times in a year.
The last one before the Vidya session was in January, this year at the A&C Mall at East Legon in Accra. Before then, they read in December 2015 at PaJohn’s Place, also in Accra.
The reading sessions attract people from various backgrounds: students, university lecturers, civil servants and writers.
“We were so encouraged by the over 50 book enthusiasts who attended, listened, asked questions, giggled and stayed on after the reading to interact at Vidya. We continue on our journey to make reading pleasurable again,” Nana Damoah told The Mirror.
Mr Akpabli also said requests were coming in from book lovers outside Accra for them to consider holding sessions in other regional capitals.
Mr Akpabli is a columnist of The Mirror and has twice been named CNN-Multi-choice African Journalist for Arts and Culture.
His books include Romancing Ghanaland - The Beauty of 10 Regions; Harmattan- A Cultural Profile of Northern Ghana and Tickling The Ghanaian -Encounters With Contemporary Culture.
Nana Damoah holds a Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering and his books include Sebitically Speeking, Tales from Different Tails; Excursions In My Mind, I Speak Of Ghana and Through The Gates of Thought.
