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Kasoa: Dabronx Pub Presents Live Band On December 26
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Kasoa: Dabronx Pub Presents Live Band On December 26

  Dabronx Pub in Kasoa will be the centre of attraction on December 26th 2023 when they host a live band show. The Pub will showcase the best of live bands performed by MJ BAND ONAAPO at its premises. Dabronx Pub is located at Safari Junction on the Adade- Nyanyano Road direct opposite the NICK petroleum filling station. This will be one of the biggest outdoor events during these Christmas festivities inside Kasoa in the Central Region. According to the organisers, top personalities within Kasoa and Accra will pass through to grace the event.  
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Accra hosts 2023 Ghana Property & Lifestyle Expo
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Accra hosts 2023 Ghana Property & Lifestyle Expo

Accra will from today Saturday December 16 to Sunday December 17, host the 7th edition of the Ghana Property & Lifestyle Expo 2023 at Alisa Hotel.   The Expo themed “Investing safely in Ghana” is being held outside the UK for the first time since inception in 2017. By introducing Accra as a new location, the organisers aim to provide an immersive experience for visitors, allowing them to explore the local property market, investment opportunities, and the vibrant lifestyle offerings that Ghana has to offer. The event is being organised by London-based boutique estate agent OnPoint Property run by two sisters; Anna and Victoria Agyekum. Speaking in an interview after media launch at the residency of the British High Commissioner in Accra last night, the sisters explained t...
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Ghanaian journalist aims for Guinness World Record in Longest Singathon
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Ghanaian journalist aims for Guinness World Record in Longest Singathon

Ghanaian journalist Afua Asantewaa Aduonum has secured approval from Guinness World Records (GWR) to undertake an ambitious singing marathon (singathon) lasting between 117 to 120 hours. In her pursuit of the longest individual singathon, Mrs. Aduonum, a staunch advocate for women's empowerment, plans to focus exclusively on songs from Ghana, specifically celebrating Highlife, Hiplife, and Gospel genres.   Each song will be limited to a maximum of two minutes, with GWR regulations permitting song repetition only after a four-hour interval. The current record, set in 2012 by Indian Sunil Waghmare, stands at 105 hours, a mark that Aduonum is determined to surpass. Scheduled for December, the singing marathon has already garnered significant support from Ghanaians on social media. ...
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Party On The Field To Be Launched In Ghana
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Party On The Field To Be Launched In Ghana

Introducing Party on the Field, the biggest Amapiano and Afro-beats festival designed with the aim of amplifying African sound and culture across the globe. This all-inclusive vacation and holiday event will offer a lineup of talented creatives with world-class programming of live performances and DJ sets from influential Amapiano and Afro-beats heavyweights. The organizers of Party on the Field aim to create a scintillating experience that cuts across music, food, art, and culture, promoting tourism and encouraging investments within the sub-region. The “Year of Return, Ghana 2019,” a major landmark spiritual and birth-right journey that invited the global African family, home and abroad, to mark 400 years since the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Jamestown, Virginia, prove...
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Ethiopian artist Julie Mehretu breaks African art-world record again
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Ethiopian artist Julie Mehretu breaks African art-world record again

US-based Ethiopian Julie Mehretu has once again broken the record for the highest sale price of any work by an African-born artist at auction. Her abstract painting Walkers With the Dawn and Morning fetched $10.7m (£8.6m) at Sotheby's in New York on Wednesday. The piece features ink and acrylic on canvas and takes its name from a 1920s Langston Hughes poem. Mehretu, 52, was born in Ethiopia and moved with her family to the US in 1977 at a time of political strife. She has since become one of the most prominent names in the fast-growing contemporary African art world. Mehretu painted Walkers With the Dawn and Morningit as part of an exhibition created in response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and its impact on the US city of New Orleans. The auction saw two bidders competing for the pi...
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Amoako Boafo – the Ghanaian artist who has exhibited in space
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Amoako Boafo – the Ghanaian artist who has exhibited in space

Amoako Boafo, who has become a superstar in the art world, has been back home in Ghana, where one of his self-portraits is being exhibited. He told journalist Stephen Smith that he never intended to be an artist. Short presentational grey line For all Amoako Boafo's head-turning success, he is a reluctant interviewee. Not yet 40, he has had his canvases displayed in the galleries of the mega-dealer Larry Gagosian, who has hailed him as "the future of portraiture". Boafo says he used to vie with his friends to see who could do the best drawings of their favourite superheroes, but art simply wasn't a career choice when he was growing up. "All I know is that studying portraiture growing up, it never dawned on me that it was a form of art that artists of colour could reference and study," h...
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TRT World Citizen “Humanitarian Film Festival” Awards Found its Winners
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TRT World Citizen “Humanitarian Film Festival” Awards Found its Winners

Participants of the festival, during which significant topics such as war, conflict, women's rights, and the climate crisis were discussed, met with film producers and industry professionals. At the awards ceremony held at the end of the festival, the directors of the winning films received their awards from Presidency's Director of Communications of the Republic of Türkiye Fahrettin Altun and General Director of TRT Mehmet Zahid Sobacı (https://apo-opa.co/3MCjLvw). The TRT Special Award at the festival was presented to the film "Night" by Palestinian director Ahmad Saleh. The TRT World Citizen "Humanitarian Film Festival," which aims to shed light on global humanitarian issues, took place on Sunday, November 5th, at the Atatürk Kültür Merkezi in İstanbul. In its fifth year, the festival ...
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Foto4Change presents photography equipment to Savelugu School for the Deaf
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Foto4Change presents photography equipment to Savelugu School for the Deaf

Foto4change Foundation, a Non-governmental organisation, has presented photography equipment to Savelugu School for the Deaf in the Northern region of Ghana. The items presented to the school included camera, speedlite, tripod, and other accessories. Presenting the items, Mr. Geoffrey Buta, a multiple-award winning photojournalist and the team lead at Foto4change Foundation said, the goal is to support and educate students from Schools for the Deaf in the country. He said, the importance of visual storytelling and supporting these special students has become more necessary than ever, as it has the power to shape their perception, tell their own stories and make history. He also said the presentation is to equip the students to express themselves on how visual storytelling is a very eff...
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Accra Comes Out For The First-Ever Guinness Accraaganza
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Accra Comes Out For The First-Ever Guinness Accraaganza

The world’s no. 1 stout, Guinness Ghana hosted over 3,000 attendees at the maiden Guinness Accravaganza at Untamed Empire, Accra. This immersive event unfolded at the Untamed Empire, with a fusion of music, arts, music, food, football, fashion, drinks from Diageo, and an array of engaging activities. The event is in line with Guinness’ core belief that ‘Black Shines Brightest’ in every exciting facet in the life of Ghanaian consumers of this much-loved beer. It also aimed to celebrate and ignite the creative talents spanning various domains to enhance the cultural richness and creative excellence of Ghana. A distinctive facet of this inaugural event was the opportunity for patrons, now fondly referred to as Accravaganzas, to secure tickets through a thrilling sweepstakes, resulting in ...
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Unemployed before court for allegedly causing trader to lose sight
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Unemployed before court for allegedly causing trader to lose sight

An Accra Circuit Court has granted a 24-year-old unemployed man bail in the sum of GHC50,000.00 with three sureties for causing a trader to lose his sight.Micheal Ahiati allegedly punched the left eye of Joseph Appiah-Kubi for stepping on his leg. Appiah-Kubi, who cannot see with his left eye, had awoken in the middle of the night to pass urine when he inadvertently stepped on Ahiati, resulting in the punches. Ahiati has denied punching Appiah-Kubi in the left eye.The Court presided over by Mrs Ellen Offei Ayeh granted him a GHC50,000.00 with three sureties. Police Inspector Daniel Ofori-Appiah told the Court that Appiah-Kubi, the complainant, is a trader and Ahiati, is unemployed. He said that both parties were squatters living in Agbogbloshie and that on June 19, 2023, around...
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