Ladè Wosornu, others to facilitate 2019 Kwame Nkrumah Writers’ Workshop

Retired Ghanaian surgeon and poet, Professor Ladè Wosornu has been announced as one of the six facilitators of the Kwame Nkrumah Writers’ Workshop 2019.

The others are, novelist Elizabeth-Irene Baitie; the author of ‘Of Women and Frogs’, Bisi Adjapon and publishing consultant, Woeli Dekutsey.

Director of the Ama Ata Aidoo Centre for Creative Writing, Nana Sika Achampong, would also facilitate the drama component of the course.

This was announced by the Accra International Book Festival (AIBF) in a press statement.

The workshop is slatted for October 24 and 25 at the University of Ghana, Legon, is or the selected writers.

A shortlisted number of 15 applicants will go through the 2-day course to hone their writing skills in various sessions including a face-to-face writing adventure.

The Kwame Nkrumah Writers’ Workshop 2019 is open to all persons who are interested in writing thrillers, satire, memoir, poetry, creative non-fiction, literary fiction or children’s literature.

The six facilitators would each handle different components of the training programme.

Novelists, Elizabeth-Irene Baitie and Bisi Adjapon would facilitate the fiction component of the writers’ workshop, while poet Professor Wosornu would handle the poetry component.

The publishing component of the free course would jointly be handled by publishing consultant, Woeli Dekutsey and Osborne Tetteh of Hetura Books.

This year’s Accra International Book Festival coincides with the 400th-Anniversary of the Transatlantic Slave Trade that robbed Africa of its human resources.

The Book Festival would bring together writers of African descent from all over the world to take part in conversations, debates, workshops, and performances to share their experiences about the dream of our forbearers.

The Accra International Book Festival would be held from October 24-27, 2019, at the University of Ghana, Legon.

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