In accordance with
moves by the Convention People’s Party (CPP) to win more seats in Parliament, Kabu
Okai-Davies, a member of the CPP’s
Communications and National Organization Committee has declared his intention
to contest the Korle Klottey seat in the 2012 parliamentary elections on the
CPP ticket.
Kabu Okai-Davies is
a Poet, Playwright, Lecturer, Theatre Director / Producer and Author. He
studied Political Science, Philosophy and Literature at the University of Ghana
in the 80s. He lived in England briefly and joined the Wandsworth Writers Club
in Battersea, before relocating to Newark, New Jersey, USA in 1988.
In the US he
founded and became Executive Director and Producer of the African Globe
Performing Arts and Entertainment Organization and a resident Producer at the
Newark Symphony Hall. He has since travelled extensively, through England,
Europe, Canada and Japan, as well as to St. Petersburg, Russia and Hanoi,
Vietnam before moving to Australia in 2006 to complete his studies.
Since moving to
Australia, Okai-Davies has travelled to China and recently lived briefly in the
United Arab Emirates where he explored the Middle East including Doha, Qatar
and Egypt. In America he studied Theatre Arts, Film Production and Cinema
Studies at Rutgers University-Newark and New York University School of
Continuing Education and taught African Cinema as an Adjunct Professor at the
New School for Social Research, New York and Drew University, Madison, New
Jersey.
He was a visiting
lecturer in African Cinema at University of Toronto, Canada and in Creative
Writing at Seton Hall University Summer Schools and the Governors’ School at
Monmouth College, in New Jersey in the early 1990s. He has taught theatre arts
and playwriting as a resident artist with the New Jersey Performing Arts Centre
– Theatre Academy, lectured and instructed widely on Creative Writing and
Performing Arts in New Jersey and toured the East Coast of the United States
with his Theatre and Sankofa Dance Troupe.
Okai-Davies served
as the Manager of the Theo Notaras Multicultural Centre 2007 -2010 and was
Director and Producer of the Australian National Multicultural Festival in
2009. He has worked with the Street Theatre in Canberra, as a director and a
writer in the Resident Playwriting Program.
Okai-Davies holds a Bachelor of Philosophy (Honours), Graduate Diploma
in Professional Writing and a Master of Creative Writing from the University of
Canberra and a Graduate Certificate in Multicultural Arts Marketing and
Management, from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, RMIT University,
Melbourne, Australia. He also holds a Master of Studies from the Australian National
University and two Graduate Certificates in Creative Writing and Politics from
the Oxford University School of Continuing Education, Summer School Program,
Exeter College, Oxford, England.
Okai-Davies is a candidate for a double doctorate in Communications and
Political Science from the University of Canberra and the University of New
South Wales at Australia Defence Force Academy, respectively.
Okai-Davies
recently self-published his autobiography in verse: The Long Road To Africa. Since
returning to Ghana from the Abu
Dhabi, Kabu Okai-Davies was appointed the Director of the Centre of Creativity
and Innovation at the African University College of Communications, in
Adabraka, Accra and has already started to actively engage the community in
discussion innovative ways to inspire Ghanaians and especially the youth, to
find creative ways to solve the many challenges currently facing the post PNDC
generation, popularly known a Curfew’s
Children, the same title of a forthcoming book.
Okai-Davies will be
publishing two other books, Pathway to
Parliament and Symphony of Words, to share
his ideas, creative plans and programs for his constituency and for Ghana. He
currently serves as a member of the CPP Communications team and the host of the
upcoming Friday Freedom Forum. Okai-Davies, hopes to bring to his
constituency a his wide global experience and international network of ideas,
experience and his vision for a better Ghana, starting from the Korle Klottey
constituency as he pursues his dream to become a CPP Member of Parliament.
Okai-Davies
believes that “the CPP has the Creative Potential and Power (CPP) to bring
about the fulfilment of the promise of Independence. Ghanaians are ready for
change and therefore in the same tradition by which the party campaigned for
political independence, the CPP will campaign and organize for a new social,
economic and financial independence with the political interest of Ghana and
Ghanaians at heart. This is just the beginning of the beginning for we believe
the best is yet to come and better days are ahead for Ghana.” Okai-Davies said.
“The choice is up
to the people at the polls. We the CPP want to become the voice of the
voiceless, the hope of the hopeless, to enable the disabled, the see for the
blind, to hear for the deaf and inspire a new spirit of public confidence in
the future of our country. This is why
the CPP intends to give Ghanaians a better program based on the Project for
Ghana Plan. Give CPP the mandate of leadership in the 2012 -2016 elections and
we will prove to the nation, to Africa and the world that truly Africans are
capable of managing their own affairs and fulfilling the promises of the
founder of our Party Dr. Kwame
Nkrumah and to emancipate Africans from deep levels of poverty, illiteracy, economic
and social exploitation forever.” Okai-Davies added.
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Contact Kabu Davies at: 0200754174
