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Bill Asamoah Joins The List Of Tourism Ambassador In Ghana

Popular Kumawood actor Bill Asamoah has been named as one of the many ambassadors for

tourism in Ghana.

The Minister of Tourism, Arts, and Culture, Catherine Afeku made this revelation in a post on

Facebook.

The minister in her post revealed the actor was unanimously nominated by members of

Kumawood [the local movie industry] after months of deliberation.

The actor however took his appointment letter as Tourism Ambassador on Wednesday, February 6.

Part of Madam Afeku’s post reads, “Speaking with Bill, he revealed he was going to

ensure the promotion of Ghana to the world through quality movies, and enhance

the business aspect of film making to attract investors.

Meanwhile, Bill Asamoah is also the President for the Ashanti Regional Chapter of the Ghana Actors Guild.

The actor is popular for his roles in Kumawood movies like Sundiata, Kae (Remember) and

The Mighty One.

According to the minister, Mr. Asamoah also intends to

promoteGovernment policies and agenda through Ghanaian films.

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In 2017, the Ghana Tourism Authority under the auspices of the Tourism Ministry unveiled 30 ambassadors.

These were however celebs from different aspects of the creative industry to spearhead the

“See Ghana, Eat Ghana, Wear Ghana, Feel Ghana” campaign.

Some of these ambassadors included, SP Kofi Sarpong, Fancy Gadam, D-Black, Reggie and

Bollie, Nana Ampadu, Agya Koo, Okyeame Kwame, Sena Degadu and Lucky Mensah.

Madam Afeku, said the aim of the Tourism Ambassador programme, was to partner influential

persons to help drive tourism growth in and outside the country.

However, in her Facebook post, she assured Bill Asamoah, the Nana Addo-led government has

not neglected the people of Kumasi in terms of Tourism, Arts and Culture development.

“We are trying our very best to make the industry attractive for both local and foreign investors to want to invest,” she added.

Read her full post below:

“Yesterday, Bill Asamoah was at my office to pick up his appointment letter as a Tourism Ambassador for Ghana.

This appointment was made after KUMAWOOD unanimously nominated him to be

appointed as an ambassador after many months of deliberation.

Speaking with Bill, he revealed he was going to ensure the promotion of Ghana to

the world through quality movies, and enhance the business aspect of film making

to attract investors. He also intend to promote Government policies and agenda through Ghanaian films.

I also used the opportunity to inform him that, the Nana Addo led government has

not neglected the people of Kumasi in terms of Tourism, Arts and Culture development as some media reports suggest, but instead we are trying our very best to make the industry attractive for both local and foreign investors to want to invest.

Thank you.”

Foreign Language Committee Members Should Bow Their Heads In Shame- Bill Asamoah

Bill Asamoah, President of the Ashanti Regional branch of the Ghana Actors Guild has expressed his extreme disappointment at the members of the Ghana Foreign Language Committee saying that they should bow their heads in shame for failing to nominate a movie to represent Ghana at the 2018 Oscars.

In an interview with Hitz FM’s Nana Qwame Larbi,  Bill Asamoah stressed that the committee should have educated movie makers more on the qualification and selection process.

Bill Asamoah expressed that the committee should have put proper arrangements in place to reach out to other parts of Ghana to find movies that could make the cut.

“Whoever was in charge of getting the nomination and selection of the movies should bow their heads in shame. The committee should not have stayed in Accra, they were supposed to educate movie makers more about the nomination process,” he said.

Professor Linus Abraham, Chairman of the Committee announced in Accra recently that none of the three films – ‘Children of the Mountain’, ‘Na Me Nim’ and ‘Black Monkey’ – submitted met the requirements for the Foreign Language Oscars which automatically disqualified them from being nominated.

According to Professor Abraham, the committee detected various anomalies with the submissions of all three films, “and so the committee had no choice but to disqualify them, to preserve the integrity of the committee and of Ghana’s participation in the Oscars.”

Bill Asamoah, however emphasized that, other parts of the country such as the Ashanti Region and Northern Regions of Ghana have very good indigenous movies with great story lines that could easily have made it to the Oscars.