Deborah Ahenkorah

Deborah Ahenkorah is passionate about reading, and about bringing African children compelling stories that will encourage a life-long engagement with books and literacy. “Imagine that of every 10 storybooks a British child reads, seven of them are from the United Arab Emirates, two are from China and just one book is by a British author …

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Why African Kids Don’t Read African Stories – Yet

Growing up in Ghana, as my friends and I sat around the front of the school in our brown and beige uniforms waiting for our parents to pick us up, our conversations would inevitably turn towards our favorite characters in books: The Wakefield Twins from Sweet Valley High and the girls from Babysitters Club. We …

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Theme: Broadening the frontiers of education.

Cape Coast, Ghana — August 31st, 2013 ABOUT THIS EVENT TEDxCapeCoastED would be held at the University of Cape Coast Campus on 31st August, 2013. The event is themed “broadening the frontiers of education”, and is aimed at aggregating the best ideas, projects and inputs needed to make education more responsive to Ghana’s needs. The …

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