Ghana: AMA Complex Building Hosts West Blue’s Third e-Ananse Library 

From l-r, Accra mayor, Mohammed Adjei Sowah assisting Ghana’s former Second Lady, Mrs Matilda Amissah Arthur to open the library at the AMA Complex building

Accra, Ghana, October 2, 2019//-West Blue Consulting, a world-class business and IT-consulting, and technology firm, through its e-Ananse Libraries, a new concept in public libraries in Ghana today opened its third ICT powered library at the AMA Complex building in Accra.

 

The company through its corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative built the three public libraries for kids and adults at the University of Ghana, Legon, Osu, and the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) Complex building.

The libraries are the realization of a long-held dream of West Blue’s founder, Ms. Valentina Mintah, to provide Ghanaians with culturally-relevant resources that celebrate African heritage in line with her mantra, “Think Global; Know Local.”

Speaking at the unveiling of library facility, a Director of the e-Ananse Libraries, Cephas Larbisaid: “The e-Ananse Libraries project is a concept developed to encourage reading among our kids and adults”.

At West Blue, we pride ourselves on our commitment to being a pace setting, innovating and world class organisation, and it’s this same mindset that we bring to the e-Ananse Libraries as part of our Corporate Social Responsibility, he added.

The e-Ananse Libraries stand out for four reasons. These Mr Larbi mentioned are: The libraries house contemporary and classic books, predominantly by writers of African descent, that reflect our pride in our African heritage. The Libraries also has niche collections including beautiful children’s books, poetry, and professional development;

Each of the Libraries has an iHub with state-of-the-art computing facilities to equip Ghanaians, with the skills to compete in today’s tech-savvy world;

The centerpiece of each e-Ananse library is the Ananse Hut, a magnificent outdoor space where our program of live literature events such as book reading, storytelling, and poetry recital take place; and

Our knowledgeable and professional staff take pride in their work, and in helping library users achieve their full potential. Capacity building and empowerment is at the core of what we do.

Mr Larbi iterated: “Our vision is to make a major contribution to the development of a knowledge-based society by creating an environment in which Ghanaians feel supported and inspired to become more literate individuals through the presence of e-Anansi libraries throughout the country”.

We are committed to ensuring that, through the establishment of the e-Ananse Libraries, we stay true to our values by giving our children​ and the youth both the roots and the wings to succeed”.

Our commitment to Ghana is long-standing and long-term and we’re working hard to make the e-Ananse Libraries accessible to Ghanaians across the country”.

He therefore encouraged all students and everyone to read and make good use of these e-Ananse libraries.

We at e-Ananse want reading to become a habit for every Ghanaian, Mr Larbi stressed.

On his part, the Mayor of AMA, Mohammed Adjei Sowah, thanked the West Blue Consulting for bringing the e-Ananse library to the doorstep of children and adults in the metropolis.

He said: “Reading is the food of knowledge that everyone has to acquire. That is why the e-Ananse Libraries is appropriate because it seeks to promote our cultural heritage”.

Nana Kwesi Gyan-Apenteng, the immediate past Chairman of the National Media Commission (NMC) in a short message at the unveiling ceremony which coincided with the Ghana Reads Initiative (GRI), a community-based reading campaign aimed at encouraging Ghanaians, particularly children, and the youth, to develop the love for reading, called on the government and other stakeholders to make books and other reading materials available for reading at all times.

A former Second Lady of Ghana, Mrs Matilda Amissah Arthur used the occasion to call on African writers to write about things that the children can be identified with.

African Eye Report

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