For a few years now, Nana Awere Damoah and some of his friends have been putting together awards for traits worthy and satirical for the Ghanaian populace. This is by far the winners for 2016. (Updated 23 October 2016 (still in progress, some key categories – such as the voted for ones – still in […]
Amedzofe. In biblical terms that would be our version of the Garden of Eden. In Ewe language, this place name means “the origin of mankind”. In a sense, that makes sense. The town is not only the highest human settlement in West Africa; in this part of the world, it is also the closest place […]
Last year, two Ghanaian writers Kofi Akpabli and Nana Awere Damoah gave themselves two targets: to do regular (preferably quarterly) public book readings and to extend the reading sessions beyond Accra. Last year the duo held two readings. But could not go outside Accra. For 2016, they had the same objectives and so far, they […]
Event Highlight for this Weekend 📖 Nana Awere Damoah & Kofi Akpabli host a Book Reading dubbed, ‘Tickling the Nsempiisms’ today in Ghana. 25/06/2016 @ Vidya Bookshop, Osu @ 4:30pm. Admission is free. **Directions to Vidya below. It is located off Oxford Street opposite SSNIT Hospital and next to Blue Royal Hostel.
Nana Awere Damoah and Kofi Akpabli’s book reading at Vidya Bookstore takes place in Osu on June 25, 2016. “She couldn’t take another year in prison. She couldn’t even think about it. It had become so loathsome that it was almost preferable to die than to waste away any longer behind those walls. So her […]
Kofi Akpabli, multiple-award winning journalist and author of 4 books including Tickling the Ghanaian and Romancing Ghanaland, teams up with Kapokyikyiwofaase Nana Awere Damoah of Sebitically Speaking and I Speak of Ghana fame to bring you another exciting evening of book reading! Come join them romance the valentine sebitically in the newly-opened Sytris Bookshop, East […]
Writer Nana Awere Damoah, author of five books including I Speak of Ghana, Sebitically Speaking, has called on Ghanaian publishers to do more to push Ghanaian writers on the world front. The writer, in a chat with Amoafowaa wrote: “I Speak of Ghana listed as one of the “to read” books for tourists to Ghana. […]
This is one programme you can’t afford to miss. “We’d be thrilled if you would join an intimate convergence of Accra’s tastemakers in an encounter of sizzling literature, GH humour & yuletide cheer as the kitchen at PaJohn’s titillate your palate with gastronomic delights decadently drenched in spirits and local spices… all for just ghC90 […]
Nana Awere Damoah’s launch was a successful launch. The programme which took place at the GNAT Hall in Accra on December 4, 2015 saw the likes of many huge personalities in attendance. Guests arrived at 5:30pm and this was the programme line-up. 0600 Opening Prayer 0605 Welcome – MC 0610 Introduction of Chairperson and Keynote […]
We will be streaming the book launch tomorrow live on YouTube. Please bookmark the link Not just a book launch…it’s a family gathering. and https://t.co/9WQawOH Nana Awere Damoah’s Sebitically Speaking to me, is an ice breaker if ice is sluggishness and breaking is salvation. The book takes us into a journey of advice through satires […]
An Irresistible Literary Tiger Nut …Sebitically Speaking is released ACCRA, 14 AUGUST, 2015 Sebitically Speaking, described by Daily Graphic’s Samuel Obour as ‘an irresistible literary tiger nut every lover of Ghana must chew’ has been released in paperback, written by the Ghanaian writer and engineer, Nana Awere Damoah. The fifth book released by the writer […]
Who has seen a drunk Craving for a drink Amidst pots of liquor With no owners And still sees none Even in his sanity? II I am now like the drunk One who lives in words And has dined with most Seeking some great words Just to express mood Of an surreal feeling By one […]
Nana Awere Damoah is my guest post for today. He is a man with brains and an objective voice. I can say he is the writer with the voice of reason in Ghana. His words “Ghanamonosyncratic nsempiisims” stuck with me from his book, I speak of Ghana where he presented all things as they seem […]
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