Sharing the Joy of Reading with the African Child
The
Nima Maamobi
Community
Learning Centre opens
On
Saturday, November 18, 2006, the Nima Maamobi Community Learning Centre
of Accra was commissioned. Hundreds gathered to celebrate this red-letter
day – government officials, local chiefs, librarians, community
members and friends from Canada. Children from six libraries joined in
the festivities with lively cultural dancing, poems, songs from the Nima
choir and a moving rendition of O Canada sung by the children
of the Kathy Knowles Community Library.
The concept for the design of the centre is based on an open book, welcoming arms and the baobab tree under which community members would traditionally gather. Architect: Roger Amenyogbe
Photos courtesy of Ray Dirks and Deborah Cowley
Click the
logo to see a story of the new centre on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
web site.
Raymond
Sewavi, the tiler, carefully cuts a maple leaf from a tile. He took the
initiative to include the Ghanaian and Canadian flags in the centre's tiled
foyer.
Mariama,
a long-time Nima Library literacy student, welcomes the invited guests at
the beginning of the programme. Photo credit to Tom Roach
CHC, Ghana
Roger
Amenyogbe, the Ghanaian-born Canadian architect who designed the centre,
addresses the audience.
A
library member and cultural troupe participant from the Nungua Community
Library dances at the opening ceremony.
Richard,
a student from the School for the Blind library, reads a poem alongside
his teacher, Nancy Kutornu. 
Kathy
Knowles introduces the talented tradesmen, many of whom have worked on libraries
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