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Pan-African Reading Conference to
focus on five areas - Coordinator
Accra, July 26, Ghanadot/GNA - The Pan-African reading
conference to be hosted by Ghana in August would focus on
five main areas, Professor Kate Adoo-Adeku, a coordinator of
the conference, said on Tuesday.
The areas are Literacy for Education Development, Literacy
for Political and Economic Emancipation, Literacy for Social
and Health Liberation, Literacy for Gender Empowerment and
Literacy for Adult Empowerment.
She told the Ghana News Agency in Accra that some 800
participants from across Africa and the Americas would
attend the conference dubbed "Pan-African Reading for All"
aimed at rallying reading associations in Africa under one
umbrella.
The conference would be on the theme: "Literacy for Human
Liberation".
The Ministry of Education, Science and Sport are organizing
it in collaboration with the Institute of Adult Education,
University of Ghana, University of Education, Winneba and
other reading associations in Ghana.
Announcing the conference in Accra recently, Mr Kwame Ampofo
Twumasi, Deputy Minister of Education, Science and Sports
expressed government's readiness to support any move that
would enhance the reading skills of the populace.
The Deputy Minister said that literacy had become a key
ingredient, which continued to shape the individual to
contribute meaningfully to national development.
He said there was the need to help the adult population who
were not so lucky to be in school through alternative
choices using the National Functional Literacy Programme to
acquire the skills of reading, writing and calculating.
As part of the programme a large group of conferees from
Nigeria would be driving to Ghana by bus and would launch a
campaign "Literacy on Wheels Across West Africa," Mr Ampofo
Twumasi said.
In Ghana there would be a pre-conference leadership-training
workshop to empower leaders of various participating
organization from August 3-5, Mr Ampofo Twumasi said and
urged Ghanaians to be enthusiastic about the conference.
GNA
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