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NAFTI : Martin Loh remplacé, nouvelle direction
février 2010 | Faits de société | Cinéma/TV | Ghana
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Martin Loh dirigeait l’école de cinéma d’Accra depuis 1994
Accra, Feb. 1, GNA – The National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI) needs to be refashioned into a larger media arts university providing professional and intellectual training in the various arts of the media, Professor Linus Abraham, Acting Rector of the Institute, said on Monday.
This, he indicated, would help NAFTI to respond to a vision that was aimed to energize the creative industry and economy in Ghana and in Africa.
Speaking at a handing-over ceremony of NAFTI to a new administration and board, Prof Abraham said the Institute’s curriculum must also reflect a balance between theory and practice in order to develop creative media artists who were not simply artisans but critical and intellectual media professionals capable of reflecting and critically interpreting their societies.
Prof Abraham took over from Mr Martin Loh, who had been Rector for NAFTI since 1994.
NAFTI has had no Board for the past four-and-a-half years. A new six-member board chaired by Professor Kofi Anyidoho was appointed recently to man the affairs of the Institute for two years.
The new Rector pledged an academic environment that fostered intellectual and professional curiosity and growth, and to work hand-in-hand with the new Board to hasten the pace of development.
Mr Loh in a farewell message, urged staff and students of NAFTI to give his successor maximum support as well as work together to maintain the status of the Institute as the best in sub-Sahara Africa.
Prof. Anyidoho expressed the hope that members of the new administration would bring ideas that would help NAFTI in its new vision.
Mr Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa, Deputy Minister of Information, stressed the critical role that NAFTI played in the development of the nation, linking it to the reason why Ghana’s first President Dr Kwame Nkrumah established the Institute and others like the Ghana News Agency.
He expressed regret that NAFTI was no longer playing that role, giving rise to many foreign films, particularly Nigerian films, that have infiltrated the country with their cultural values instead of « promoting our own unique Ghanaian values ».
GNA
This, he indicated, would help NAFTI to respond to a vision that was aimed to energize the creative industry and economy in Ghana and in Africa.
Speaking at a handing-over ceremony of NAFTI to a new administration and board, Prof Abraham said the Institute’s curriculum must also reflect a balance between theory and practice in order to develop creative media artists who were not simply artisans but critical and intellectual media professionals capable of reflecting and critically interpreting their societies.
Prof Abraham took over from Mr Martin Loh, who had been Rector for NAFTI since 1994.
NAFTI has had no Board for the past four-and-a-half years. A new six-member board chaired by Professor Kofi Anyidoho was appointed recently to man the affairs of the Institute for two years.
The new Rector pledged an academic environment that fostered intellectual and professional curiosity and growth, and to work hand-in-hand with the new Board to hasten the pace of development.
Mr Loh in a farewell message, urged staff and students of NAFTI to give his successor maximum support as well as work together to maintain the status of the Institute as the best in sub-Sahara Africa.
Prof. Anyidoho expressed the hope that members of the new administration would bring ideas that would help NAFTI in its new vision.
Mr Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa, Deputy Minister of Information, stressed the critical role that NAFTI played in the development of the nation, linking it to the reason why Ghana’s first President Dr Kwame Nkrumah established the Institute and others like the Ghana News Agency.
He expressed regret that NAFTI was no longer playing that role, giving rise to many foreign films, particularly Nigerian films, that have infiltrated the country with their cultural values instead of « promoting our own unique Ghanaian values ».
GNA
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