Category: News
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Announcing the finalists for the inaugural Adinkra Poetry Prize
Congratulations to the talented finalists of the inaugural Adinkra Poetry Prize! Your words have moved us and left us in awe. Keep shining and inspiring others with your powerful poetry. Look out for the announcement of winners and runner-ups next week!
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News on The Adinkra Poetry Prize!
The Adinkra Poetry Prize Committee is pleased to share that we will be announcing our finalists of the 2023 Adinkra Poetry Prize on Good Friday, 7 April. Winners will be announced during the week of April 10. This year’s competition received an overwhelming response, with 80 submissions from poets across Ghana. The Adinkra Poetry Prize was…
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We’re on a break!
After a busy seven months, we are taking a well-earned break! Though the library is closed, we will continue to be open online, posting news, happenings, and opportunities on our social media pages. We’ll brb. See you soon! Image: Nipah Dennis
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The 2022 LOATAD WAW Residency Comes to an End
Our 2022 West African Writers (WAW) Residency is officially over! What a joy it’s been these past five months to be in community with writers, thinkers, and all-round good people from across the region! Since February, we’ve hosted 18 writers, including two from our Digital Residency, at LOATAD in Accra. For most, this was their…
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Open Call: Residency and Production Programme for West African and Scottish Writers
Six mid-career/established writers from West Africa and Scotland will be given the space and resources to create new work during two exciting cross-cultural residencies in the Scottish Highlands and in Ghana. Writers will also take part in a supporting digital programme of connection, which will expand the scope of the residencies. and facilitate the production…
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Work to begin on construction of new eco-library in Nsutam
Work on the construction of a new mudLIBRARY, an eco-friendly library that makes the most out of materials from the environment in which it is set, is due to begin next week (11 July). The library is a partnership between Austrian architectural NGO, Archifair, Ghanaian construction company, Hive Earth, and LOATAD’s #BookDropGhana campaign.
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Mme Diop Wane of Presence Africaine visits LOATAD
It was an honour to welcome Mme Marie-Aida Diop Wane to LOATAD last Wednesday. Mme Diop Wane is a translator and the daughter of the legendary Alioune Diop 🇸🇳 (1910-1980), writer, editor, and founder of the pioneering pan-African journal Présence Africaine, and a central figure in the Négritude movement. Mme Diop Wane gave a talk…
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