Accra-Ghana, April 29, CDA Consult – The National Commission for Civic Education’s (NCCE) Ayawaso Central Municipal Directorate celebrated the 2023 Accra World Book Capital (AWBC) with a reading party for students and inhabitants of the municipality.
Mr. Emmanuel Benefo, Public Relations Officer, Ayawaso Central Municipal Education Directorate, expressed gratitude to the organizers of the programme, highlighting that reading was an academic shortfall affecting many pupils in the municipality and that constant reading would help them widen their horizons.
He stated that the local education directorate would continue to support such initiatives in order to pique pupils’ interest in reading and learning more.
UNESCO has recognized a city as the World Book Capital since 2001.
The Accra World Book Capital 2023 initiative aims to encourage people to read and utilise books in order to generate positive social change in Accra.
The event began on Monday and concluded on Friday, April 28, 2023. The theme of the conference is “Reading to Connect Minds for Social Transformation.”
The AWBC was a United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) initiative aimed at encouraging children and society as a whole to read.
Accra is Africa’s fourth policy competition winner this year.
The title supports domestic book publishing, libraries, books, reading, literacy awareness, book culture, tourism, and the city’s cultural legacy.
Accra’s victory in 2023 confirms UNESCO’s enthusiasm for the countless efforts done to encourage reading and promote books in Accra and throughout Ghana.
The reading session, according to Mrs. Rhoda Akueteh, Director of Ayawaso Central NCCE, allowed students and people the opportunity to read anything from a book.
She stressed the significance of reading in early childhood development, emphasizing the need for parents and other stakeholders to foster citizens’ love of reading.
Mrs. Akueteh went on to say that the reading celebration would be reproduced throughout the municipality, and she asked duty bearers to spread the word.
