Kumasi ( Ashanti Region) 23 July '99
The Ashanti Region is to be hooked to the Internet as part of the drive to attract investors.
Mr Kojo Yankah, the Regional Minister, said already, 112 pages of website have been prepared.
Mr Yankah was answering questions on his vision for Ashanti from a visiting 30-member delegation of the Savannah University of Georgia, United States, during a courtesy call on him at his office in Kumasi.
The delegation is exploring avenues for partnership with universities in the country.
Mr Yankah told them that a video documentary on the region's culture and resources has been made and that a Kumasi Business Club to spearhead the promotion of investment and business activities had also been formed.
The Regional Minister spoke of plans to hold a "Yaa Asantewaah Festival" in the first week of August, next year to honour the legedary war heroine, Nana Yaa Asantewaah, the late Queenmother of Ejisu.
Highlights of the festival, he said, include the first ever durbar of Queenmothers and an intellectual colloquium on women, the focal point of which would be on resistance.
Professor Joseph Silver Jnr., President of Academic Studies of the University of Savannah, told the Regional Minister that they have already been in contact with the
Vice-Chancellors of the univesities of Ghana and Cape Coast, and are also making efforts to get in touch with the authorities of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).
The delegation praised Mr Yankah for his "real foresightedness".
