Professor Kwesi Yankah, Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Legon, will Wednesday give this year\u2019s Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences lecture at the British Council in Accra at 5:30.p.m. He will speak on the topic:
\u201cDzi Wo Fie Asem\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\nThe distinguished professor is the author of Abonsam Fireman<\/em>; a political satire which attracted readers to the Catholic Standard in the 1970\u2019s when the late General Kutu Acheampong and his cross-belt generals sat at the Castle and took political decisions for the country.<\/p>\nProf. Yankah is credited with the creation of \u2018Woes of a Kwatriot,\u2019<\/em> which made The Mirror newspaper a must-read publication in Ghana at weekends not too long ago.<\/p>\nHead of the Linguistic Department of the University of Ghana for several years, Prof. Yankah is a member of the large Vicking family, the alumni association of the Mensah Sarbah Hall of the University of Ghana, where he was a student, Hall tutor and Hall master.<\/p>\n
According to Odineho Kofi Dua-Adonteng, official spokesman for the Vikings support group for Wednesday\u2019s lecture, all members are required to be present at the British Council Hall to give the professor the needed moral support.<\/p>\n
Source: The Chronicle<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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