{"id":2903,"date":"2013-03-25T15:08:11","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T15:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.africlub.net\/awdf\/?p=2903"},"modified":"2015-08-18T14:21:46","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T14:21:46","slug":"franka-andohs-story-for-international-womens-day-book-slam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/franka-andohs-story-for-international-womens-day-book-slam\/","title":{"rendered":"Franka Andoh&#8217;s story for International Women&#8217;s Day &#8216;book slam&#8217;."},"content":{"rendered":"<span lang=\"en\">Franka Maria Andoh wrote a special piece entitled &#8216;I&#8217;ve got Time&#8217; for the International Women&#8217;s Day book slam organised by the African Women&#8217;s Development (AWDF) and Alliance Francaise (Accra. Her shot story had the audience in hysterics. Watch the footage of Franka&#8217;s reading below.<\/span>\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rvtvt9fj0Ps\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span lang=\"en\">Franka is an entrepreneur, editor, writer and the owner of a popular coffee shop, Josie\u2019s Cuppa Cappuccino in Accra, Ghana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">After a long period of not writing, Franka got back into the writing groove after being selected to partake in the British Council\u2019s Crossing Borders programme for African writers.\u00a0 Her short story <i>Mansa<\/i> has been published in the Caine Prize for African Writing 2009 edition.\u00a0 In 2011 her two children\u2019s stories<i> Koku the Cockerel<\/i> and<i> Dokono the Donkey<\/i>; two exciting tales set in Accra were well received both locally and abroad. Franka is the founder and Editor in Chief of an annual magazine for women entrepreneurs called AWE.<\/span>\n\n<figure id=\"attachment_2904\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2904\" style=\"width: 717px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2904 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.africlub.net\/awdf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Franka-Andoh-1024x843.jpg\" alt=\"Franka Andoh\" width=\"717\" height=\"590\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Franka Andoh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[248,249,250,220],"class_list":["post-2903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-franka-andoh","tag-internatiomal-womens-day","tag-reading","tag-writer"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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