Ghana Recognises Buratai, Adesewo Contributions To The Arts

Broadway Theatre Festival Ghana volition grant 2 Nigerian retired Major General T. Y. Buratai and Jerry Adesewo for their contributions to the arts.

Buratai is the laminitis of the T. Y. Buratai Literary Initiative – an entity that promotes literacy among youths done the donation of publication boxes to schools and universities.

The inaugural is besides the organiser of the T. Y. Buratai Young Adult Literature Competition, which awards young big fabrication writers a expansive prize of N1.5 cardinal and N250,000 to apical six writers from the nation’s six geopolitical zones.

Adesewo is the laminitis and creator manager of the Arojah Royal Theatre (ART) and the convener of the Abuja International Theatre Festival and Awards (ABITFA). As a improvement theatre company, ART deploys theatre arsenic a instrumentality for dialogue, alteration and taste diplomacy.

Buratai volition beryllium conferred the Broadway Theatre Festival Ghana’s ‘Special Recognition Award for Art Patronship’ portion Adesewo volition person the ‘Excellence Award for Contributions to Theatre’, astatine the lawsuit scheduled to clasp from October 5 to 13 astatine the School of Performing Arts, University of Ghana, Accra.
Also participating astatine the festival is the Diamond Global Academy, Minna, Niger State, Nigeria, victor of the HIASFEST 2025 Theatre Category, founded by poet, writer and teacher, B.M. Dzukogi.

Broadway Theatre Festival started arsenic an advocacy level successful 2012, which aimed astatine promoting theatre studies astatine secondary schools and changing the theatre communicative successful Ghana.

Today, the festival celebrates the surviving and transferable taste practice of Africa, peculiarly Ghana. This practice comprises dances, music, stories, and traditions spanning generations and has continued to animate modern creatives.

“This festival is wherever the past meets the contiguous and wherever African voices find caller spot connected the planetary stage. It is Africa telling its ain communicative connected its ain terms, with the satellite watching.”

The eight-day lawsuit volition diagnostic accepted and modern signifier performances and discussions with panelists from Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Togo, the United States and Ghana. There volition besides beryllium masterclasses, workshops and a peculiar Heritage Day spotlighting Ghana’s taste vibrancy and the communal tone that unites Africa.

“By gathering voices from antithetic corners of Africa and the diaspora, the festival demonstrates however the arts tin interruption barriers, physique connections and make caller possibilities for collaboration,” the organisers said.