Writers Project of Ghana is happy to announce the start of the 2023 edition of our monthly reading series, organised in collaboration with our partners Goethe-Institut Ghana. Dedicated to fiction or long form writing, this reading series has over the past twelve years featured writers from Ghana, Africa and beyond for engaging sessions of reading and conversation.
For the month of March, we host Ghanaian writer and novelist Yeayi Kobina, author of the novel, The Usurper's Dream. This novel is about the coming of age of Osei Tutu, the first King of what would become the Ashanti Empire. The hour-long session of readings and conversation will start at 7 PM on Wednesday, 29th March 2023.
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For the month of March 2023, Goethe-Institut Ghana and Writers Project of Ghana are proud to present poets Sarpong Kumankoma and Hauwa Saleh Abubakar at Poetry Time at Goethe Abansoro, a themed poetry reading and conversation session. This event is slated for Wednesday 1st March, 2023 at 7 PM GMT at the Goethe-Institut in Cantonments, Accra. You are cordially invited to this evening of poetry readings and discussion.
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Goethe-Institut Ghana and Writers Project of Ghana announce our return to programming for Poetry Time at Goethe Abansoro, a themed poetry reading and conversation session. This first edition of Poetry Time at Goethe Abansoro for 2023 is slated for Wednesday 8th February 2023, at 7 PM GMT at the Goethe-Institut in Cantonments, Accra. You are cordially invited to this evening of poetry and discussion with Mwinkum Yirkyio and Sarpong Osei Asamoah.
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Writers Project of Ghana and Goethe-Institut Ghana are pleased to announce the opening of this year's edition of Pa Gya! A Literary Festival in Accra. Opening this Friday 14th October at the Goethe-Institut in Accra, the festival will commence with a series of workshops from 11.00 AM. The opening ceremony is at 5:30 PM. This will be followed at 6:20 PM by a conversation between legendary Ghanaian filmmaker Kwaw Ansah and filmmaker and academic, Aseye Tamakloe, who will discuss the use of film as a medium of story-telling. At 7.20 PM there will concurrently be a book discussion between Philippe Sands (author, "The Last Colony") and Kinna Likimani, an audio listening session and discussion of the radio play "Good-bye Gold Coast", and a conversation between Chef Bintu and researcher James Courtright which will be moderated by Elizabeth Johnson.
The festival is free to attend.
See you there!
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