Thursday , March 28 2024

PAWA DECORATES PRESIDENT WITH NOBLE PATRON OF THE ART AWARD

The Pan-African Writers Association (PAWA) has awarded President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo with the Noble Patron of the Art Award for his interest and contribution to arts.                                                                                 He was given a medallion and certificate and in line with the tradition of PAWA, made to sit on the Stool of Royalty of PAWA. The award ceremony took place at the 27th PAWA Colloquium in Accra yesterday. President Akufo-Addo thanked the Association for the honour given him and urged writers on the continent to use the ‘pen’ to tell the African story.                                                                                                                                                                                 ‘Nobody can tell Africa’s story better than Africans’ he said and advised writers to guard their integrity when telling the African story. He said the high level of poverty in Africa could be eradicated if majority of the African citizens were educated. ‘Throughout the world it has been shown that education provides the fastest means to end poverty. He said that African writers had a major of educating Africans through their work.                                                       He urged writers to be brutally frank in telling the African story and eschew the habit of over exaggerating praise singing. President Akufo-Addo commended the role of writers on the continent in waging war against all forms of imperialism with their pens instead of guns. He stressed the need for economists in Africa to create a better atmosphere and help eradicate poverty to avoid the mass and hazardous exit of the youth from the continent.

Check Also

John Kumah’s food poisoning: The inside story

A former Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), Maame …