Kabu Okai-Davies To Contest Korle Klottey Seat For CPP.

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