11-Year-old girl breaks record as the youngest
author Zita Ackah Nyanzu
| Posted: Monday, May 09, 2005
In a historic gesture, an 11-year-old J.S.S.1 girl, Joan Enyonam Simpson, a native of Kpando in the Volta Region has written a seven-chapter book which is a new candle being lit in Ghana towards moral education.
The seven-chapter book brings out the consequences of some habits like laziness, drug addiction and disobedience among the young and the adult in the country. The young author's book which is entitled "HOW AFUA ESCAPED HIV" deals with the number one killer disease of our millennium," HIV/AIDS".
According to her, she has read a lot about the menace and knows the stigma attached to this dreadful disease. "I have seen a lot of people living with HIV/AIDS and dying of it, so I deem it necessary with my little knowledge, effort and feeling, to write something and educate people on that" she explained.
She implored Ghanaians, both the young and the adult to be disciplined, have good morals and cultivate the culture of being mindful about the killer disease.
Launching the book, Rev. Father Isaac Benuvanah who inspired the youngest author to write the book appealed to Ghanaians to encourage Joan Enyonam to become another Shakespeare in Ghana.
He hoped that she would rise to the status of our famous African writers such as Afua Sutherland, Chinua Achebe and Ama Ata Aidoo.
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