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    Africa Must Read Foundation Honours Daniel Owusu-Koranteng

    Mr Daniel Owusu-Koranteng, a Writer, Poet , ADR Practitioner, Industrial Relations Practitioner and Human Resource Development Specialist has received the  Readers Choice Best Poet Award for 2024.  

    The Readers Choice Best Poet Award was sponsored by the Africa Must Read Foundation which supports the development of Reading Culture among the youth. 

    The Best Poet award 2024 was based on the poetry book published by Daniel Owusu-Koranteng titled , “ The Wanderer’s Poems-An Anthology of Twenty-Five Poems”. 

    The award ceremony which took place at the Aburi Botanical Gardens on 24th March , 2024 was part of the programme  to launch the READ A-THON activities being undertaken by the renowned Reading Advocate Veronica Obeng.

    The “Wanderer’s Poems-An anthology of Twenty-Five Poems” is expected to be one of the collection of books to be read by Veronica Obeng in the ongoing READ A-THON programme at Aburi Botanical Gardens.
     
    This is the second time a book published by Mr Daniel Owusu-Koranteng has received a prestigious award. 
     
    In the first award, “ PAYING MY DEBT-AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY “ won the First Prize in the Creative Non-Fiction ( Kofi Awoonor) Category at the fifth Literary Awards of the Ghana Association of Writers ( GAW) on 16th December, 2021. 

    The “ Paying My Debt- An Autobiography” is one of the collection of books to be read in the on-going  READ A-THON programme at Aburi Botanical Gardens .

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