What Prez. Akufo-Addo said about the Creative Arts Sector in the 2019 SONA
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The President of the Republic of Ghana, H.E. Nana Akufo-Addo today 21st February, 2019 delivered to the Parliament of Ghana the 2019 State of the Nation’s Address (SONA) as mandated by Article 67 of the 1992 constitution of Ghana.
The SONA mainly covers the covering economic, social, and financial state of the country. The Creative Arts Sector was highlighted in this year’s SONA and in the speech delivered to the august house, the President read (unedited);
“Mr. Speaker, we are continuing with initiatives to improve the Creative Arts Sector. We have also worked to finalise the Creative Arts Bill, leading to the setting up of the Creative Arts Fund. For the first time, in 2018, Government provided support to the Creative Arts Council, and the Creative Arts Masterclass, to build capacity of Creative Arts practitioners, has also commenced. The Eastern Regional Theatre has been completed, and work is currently ongoing towards the construction of the Kumasi theatre.”
Author: Nana Kwesi Coomson (www.233times.net) @nkcoomson on Twitter/Instagram
ABOUT: Nana Kwesi Coomson
[email protected] An Entrepreneur, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Communications Executive and Philanthropist. Editor-in-Chief of www.233times.com. A Senior Journalist with Ghanaian Chronicle Newspaper. An alumnus of Adisadel College where he read General Arts. His first degree is in Bachelor of Arts - Political Science (major) and History (minor) from the University of Ghana. He holds MSc in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Energy with Public Relations (PR) from the Robert Gordon University in the United Kingdom. He is a 2018 Mandela Washington Fellow who studied at Clark Atlanta University in USA on the Business and Entrepreneurship track.
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