Founder's Day goes Pan African with literary and arts celebration
18th September 2016
Author and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka at a Storymoja Festival in Nairobi. FILE PHOTO | COURTESY | STORYMOJA
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Du Bois Memorial Centre will host the Inaugural Storymoja Ghana Festival on Wednesday as Ghana marks the birthday of the nation’s first President, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.
The Storymoja Festival, which is an annual literary and arts celebration, traditionally held in Nairobi is being brought to Accra as it has now developed into a pan-African event.
Organisers of the events are looking forward to a very successful inaugural event which commences from September 21 to 25, celebrating the life of the Ghana's founder, as well as remembering the late writer Kofi Awoonor.
Storymoja is a Kenyan publishing house, and promotion of a national reading cultural is a critical part of its business strategy
The move marks a bittersweet moment for Nairobi, as the festival has now been put on hold in the city indefinitely.