5th GAW Literary Awards: Calls for submissions now open LISTEN
The Ghana Association of Writers (GAW) announces the
Call for Submission of qualified literary works from July 2019 to June 2021 for the 5th GAW Literary Awards to be held in November 2021 under the theme, “Honouring Literary Excellence.”
This prestigious literary award was first held in August 1987, thirty years after the founding of GAW, under the leadership of Professor Atukwei Okai.
The Awards was created to celebrate, inspire and promote Ghanaian literary talent, as GAW believes that literature plays a critical role in the development of a nation.
Since its establishment in 1987, the GAW Literary Awards has grown to become the largest literary awards in the country. This year, the awards will recognise writers in twelve categories:
You see, I fully appreciate the tourist attraction aspect of the creation of special graveyards or cemeteries for our deceased or late Presidents, but it should not be Dead Presidents alone, but a Pantheon of all our illustrious leaders, statesmen and women, accomplished and distinguished professionals and citizens, like the legendary and immortalized Dr.
Nkrumah Mausoleum Is a Japanese Idea – Part 1
JAN 23, 2021
He prides himself with being a very good historian, so I expected Capt. (Retired) Nkrabeah Effah-Dartey to know that it was a visiting Japanese Prime Minister who first asked to be shown the tomb of Ghana’s first postcolonial leader, President Kwame Nkrumah, assuming the same to be located somewhere in the Greater-Accra Metropolis, only to be disappointingly informed that he needed to travel by road some 200 miles west towards Ghana’s border with the Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire), to the village of Nkroful, before he could be shown Nkrumah’s tomb. If memory serves me accurately, that Japanese Premier would eventually make it to Nkroful and to the tomb of Ghana’s globally celebrated African Show Boy, to lay a wreath on the tomb or in the tomb of the immortalized Ghanaian leader.
Secretary General, Pan-African Writers’ Association, Dr. Wale Okediran (left); Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed; former President of the Association of Nigerian Authors, Mr. Denja Abdullahi and ; the Director, Entertainment and Creative Services, Federal Ministry of Information and Culture, Mr. Babajide Ajibola, when the Secretary General of PAWA paid a courtesy visit to the minister in Abuja.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has called on the new Secretary General of the Pan-African Writers’ Association (PAWA), Dr. Wale Okediran, to strive to revive the golden age of African writers, who actively worked for the unity, development and decolonisation of Africa.