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ACCRA WORLD BOOK CAPITAL, 2023

ACCRA WORLD BOOK CAPITAL, 2023

ACCRA WORLD BOOK CAPITAL, 2023

Every year, since 2001, United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) awards the World Book Capital title to a designated city.

On 22nd September 2021, UNESCO declared the city of Accra as the UNESCO World Book Capital for the year 2023. Accra therefore joins the prestigious global Network of World Book Capital Cities as the 23rd city (and the 3rd in Sub-Saharan Africa).

The Accra World Book Capital is aimed at using books and reading to promote positive social change in the city of Accra and Ghana as a whole. It was launched on 24th April, 2023 under the theme “Reading to Connect Minds for Social Transformation”.

The President of the Republic of Ghana and the Director-General of UNESCO jointly launched the Accra World Book Capital 2023, at the event in Accra.

The launch of the Accra World Book Capital kick starts a year-long of activities that will reinforce school and community infrastructure and institutional support for lifelong learning, in order to foster the culture of reading.

The launch attracted a host of stakeholders in the education, creative, and book publishing industries, as well as students, government officials and members of the diplomatic corps and Ghana Book Trust represented by the Executive Director

There are a lot of expectations for Accra. Firstly, in honour of Accra being named the UNESCO World Book Capital for 2023, Ghana Book Trust in collaboration with Books for Africa and other stakeholders is committed to providing a special delivery of five 40ft sea containers of books to Ghana. This donation represents approximately 150,000 books valued at over $1.3 million to be distributed to specific institutions..

Secondly, Ghana Book Trust expects to take advantage of this international platform to promote books, literacy and reading at all levels.

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