Ama Dadson CEO AkooBooks Audio 🇬🇭

Founder & CEO @AkooBooksAudio Amplifying African voices one audiobook at a time. Authors & publishers — let’s turn your stories into sound!

[Lizz Johnson @Eltayo_Ofosuah]

Festival manager duties #pagya26

[BRITTLE PAPER @brittlepaper]

Congratulations to Nigerian-British journalist Emmanuel Akinwotu, named The New York Times' new West Africa correspondent! Joining from NPR, he returns to the Times, where he once reported as a stringer, and will be based in Lagos 🗞️ @ea_akin https://t.co/VJ1tcMdOOq

[Sheila Akwany @SAkwany]

The Imagination Gap: Who Gets to Imagine the Future?
This was such a wonderful panel
@akoobooks @ShiroKoinange @MirrianneMahn @chikaunigwe @BeingEdna

[Ama Dadson CEO AkooBooks Audio 🇬🇭 @akoobooks]

Just finished @SimuChigudu’s Chasing Freedom. What a book.

I laughed out loud. I wept. Sometimes I had to simply put it down and sit with what I’d read.

Brave, intimate, beautifully written and brilliantly narrated by Simukai himself on audio.

It will stay with me for a long time.

“It is GOOD like that.”

Thank you, @SimuChigudu, for this extraordinary book.

[Jason Brickhill @Jason_Brickhill]

Just finished reading @SimuChigudu's memoir, 'Chasing Freedom' - tore through it in a few days.

Have not read a book that made me THINK and FEEL as much as this in a long time. A brave, beautiful and bracing work by a brilliant writer not afraid to grapple with complexities and contradictions in personal and political life.

I somehow felt more myself after reading it, better able to understand my own life and world after reading what Simukai shared of his.

[Ama Dadson CEO AkooBooks Audio 🇬🇭 @akoobooks]

@Jason_Brickhill @SimuChigudu A brilliant, deeply moving read. I wept and laughed aloud several times, and found myself stopping often just to think. It will stay with me for a long time.

“It is GOOD like that.”

Thank you, Simukai, for this beautiful, brave book.

[Ali Tekin @alitekintr]

TIME dergisinin seçtiği, hayatınızda en az bir kez okumanız gereken 100 roman. Kaydedin lazım olur.

[Ama Dadson CEO AkooBooks Audio 🇬🇭 @akoobooks]

Look what just arrived from Inquiring Minds Bookstore! 📚❤️

My copy of Asantewaa, Your Turn Now by @Amabisi. I loved Bisi Adjapon’s previous two books, so I’ve been waiting for this one. Yaa Asantewaa, history, women, courage — I can’t wait to dive in! 🇬🇭

[Apiorkor Seyiram Ashong-Abbey @apiorkor]

53,840 young people wrote.

53,840 entries to The Queen’s Commonwealth Writing Competition this year.

I had the privilege of serving as one of the judges.

And somewhere in all that reading, I found myself thinking about one question:

What happens to the Ghanaian child who is exceptionally good with words?

[Mark @lebatardshowfan]

My favorite clip of Dolly.

[Ama Dadson CEO AkooBooks Audio 🇬🇭 @akoobooks]

RIP Dolly Parton. 💔

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Dolly Parton started the Imagination Library in 1995 as a tribute to her father, who couldn't read or write.

In 2018, she explained it was to give kids "early access to books".

Now, over 325 million books have been gifted.

[Ama Dadson CEO AkooBooks Audio 🇬🇭 @akoobooks]

Throwback to the AkooBooks Audio Lounge at #GIBF2025 🎧📚

We won’t be at the @gh_int_bookfair this year, but we’ll be cheering from afar!

Last year, we invited visitors to put on the headphones and experience African stories differently.

The AkooBooks Audio Lounge will be back, maybe sooner at #PaGya!, and definitely at #GIBF2027. 🎧❤️

#GIBF2026 #AkooBooks
@writersPG

[Ama Dadson CEO AkooBooks Audio 🇬🇭 @akoobooks]

Three stimulating days at #Mashariki2026 in Dar es Salaam 🇹🇿 — meeting authors, publishers & creatives, talking rights, audio, digital publishing and how African stories can travel across borders, languages & formats.

New connections, exciting possibilities — and I even danced with the legendary Yvonne Chaka Chaka! 💃🏾🎶

Asante sana, Dar! 📚🎧🌍

[Jana @MTDillard3712]

I never dreamed you could do that kind of artwork with vegetables.
But I think it’s really pretty and certainly creative.

[Ama Dadson CEO AkooBooks Audio 🇬🇭 @akoobooks]

Looking forward to leading an Audiobook Masterclass at Kampala Writes! 🎧📚

We’ll go from page to playback — exploring adaptation, narration, production, rights, distribution & monetisation, plus a hands-on “From Page to Audio” exercise and a look at how AI tools are changing audio publishing.

Can’t wait to meet Uganda’s writers and storytellers! 🎙️🇺🇬

#KampalaWrites #Audiobooks #AfricanPublishing #AkooBooks

[Kampala Writes Lit Fest @KlaWrites]

We invite y'all for an Audio Publishing Masterclass facilitated by Ama Dadson

📍 Venue: Green Room, National Theatre
🕘 Time: 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
🎟️ Entry: Free
🔗 Register using the

Register here: https://t.co/DdHb8cvNXz

[Kampala Writes Lit Fest @KlaWrites]

Join us for the,"Where Stories Begin", panel talking about how stories are born before they become novels or images. They begin with imaginations.The panel brings together disciplines that rarely share a stage to discuss how different artistic forms shape the stories they tell.

[Ama Dadson CEO AkooBooks Audio 🇬🇭 @akoobooks]

@Lendoskiblinks1 How can I reach you? You can reach me on email at [email protected]

[Ama Dadson CEO AkooBooks Audio 🇬🇭 @akoobooks]

@Lendoskiblinks1 Yes. Kindly share your email in my DM.

[Ama Dadson CEO AkooBooks Audio 🇬🇭 @akoobooks]

Which Ghana football legend deserves a biography or autobiography next?

⚽ Robert Mensah
⚽ Abedi Pele
⚽ Karim Abdul Razak
⚽ Ibrahim Sunday
⚽ Tony Yeboah
⚽ Stephen Appiah

While you think about it…

📖 THE PIONEER
🪄 THE WIZARD
👑 THE CAPTAIN
⚽ THE CULTURE

Explore the Ghana Football Collection: https://t.co/w5mz7Yoflq

#GhanaFootball