Ephya’s Inquest

On the 10th of April 2024, Vanessa Vanderpuye a final year student of the African University College of Communication hosted a show with some authors of the Afadjato book. The program was held at the Ama Atta Aidoo Centre at 2:30pm, some students were around to ask questions and know more about this authors. This authors elaborated us more on the motivations behind their stories, reasons why they chose their casts and topics for the stories.  The three authors namely Ursula Abanga( the lady in the middle), Benjamin Cyril Arthur( the man) and Akorfa Dawson, threw more light on their characters. “ I took my story from the saloon” Benjamin had said, the author said his mom is a half voltairian so she often goes there but as for him he hasn’t been there before. Mostly his mom tells him about the places she has been to in Volta and how life goes on around there. He felt a bit happy and nervous when he was given the opportunity to write this story, “this brought a close bound between my mom

Kwame Brenya a thirty five year old writer who also performs the form of spoken words and palm wine music had a book talk with some students at the AMA ATA AIDOO center for creative writing on the 3 rd  of April 2024 at the African University college of Communication. The young artist studied BSc materials engineering at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi.   The presentation by Kwame Brenya on his published anthology ADINKRA, KASA! and the philosophy within the Adinkra language brought more light to some students on the meaning behind certain Akan names and symbols. Kwame Brenya meaning Kwa Bre Nyame, had said that Hmmm which is a response to hmmm is a deep breath that you take within you which makes you calm.  He told us about how he got possessed by the Adinkra language using a water body as an example, “when I got to the Adinkra language, the Adinkra inspired me and I got possessed by the Adinkra language”, Kwame Brenya had said. Kwame Brenya went on to t