Nsona mounts photo exhibition on African Child
Accra (Greater Accra) 18 June 2001
Omanza Shaw, a renowned photographer, on Friday urged governments, policy makers and development agents to give children a good start in life, saying it is one investment opportunity with guaranteed returns.
He observed that despite the widespread absence of sustainable development in numerous countries around the world, governments and policy makers seem blinded to this opportunity.
Mr. Shaw, who is also an actor, said children need the best possible start in life, which guarantees human development, adding: "it assures great economic returns in the future".
Mr. Shaw was addressing the opening ceremony of a photo exhibition he mounted at the W. E. B. Du Bois Memorial Centre in commemoration of the day of the African Child, which falls on Saturday.
The exhibition, entitled "Living Arrows", is a presentation of the Nsona Centre for Photography and Design, an organisation dedicated to developing a better understanding and appreciation of the visual arts.
"It has children as its theme and is designed to highlight the plight of the African child."
"Living Arrows" is an excerpt from a poem by Kahlil Gibran, a Lebanese Poet and Philosopher, in which parents were portrayed as bows and children as the living arrows.
Mr. William Hrisir Quaye, Acting Executive Director of the Du Bois Centre, said the day of the African Child was declared by the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in remembrance of the plight of African children, many of whom were massacred on June 16 in 1976 in South Africa as they demonstrated against the injustices of the former apartheid regime.
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