https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/lets-wear-african-prints-daily-okyeame-kwame\/<\/a><\/p>\nThe campaign has become necessary because research has shown that when parents read<\/p>\n
with their children their interest in reading is activated more than when the parents<\/p>\n
\u2018scream at them to read unattended.\u2019<\/p>\n
The director of Ghana Book Trust, Mrs. Genevieve Eba-Polley, in her submission,<\/p>\n
mentioned that Okyeame Kwame was chosen because of his exemplary life<\/p>\n
as a father and as a human being in general.<\/p>\n
She also mentioned Okyeame\u2019s his impeccable brand positioning as a motivation for the project.<\/p>\n
The Canadian government was represented by Corey Huntington.<\/p>\n
In his acceptance speech, Okyeame recounted how difficult it was to read even at age 10<\/p>\n
because his parents didn\u2019t read with him and he lacked interest in reading due to that.<\/p>\n
In that wise, he appreciated the appointment and promised to let his influence manifest in the cause.<\/p>\n
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Awards-winning Ghanaian musician, Okyeame Kwame has been appointed by the Canadian government as a Reading Ambassador. The Canadian government through the Canadian Organisation for Development through Education (CODE), a Canadian Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), in partnership with Ghana Book Trust has made the \u2018Rap Dacta\u2019 a reading ambassador. gotten another social responsibility as a Reading Ambassador. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6036,"featured_media":52487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2670],"class_list":["post-52614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-okyeame-kwame-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52615,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52614\/revisions\/52615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}