The Student Representative Council of the Okwahu campus has held its 11th Akwaaba Week celebration.
The week long activities started with a corporate photoshoot. The SRC’s director of photography Nipah, in no particular order took epic pictures of students clad in their corporate apparels looking ravishing on the red carpet.
The Week celebration euphoria no sooner than later gained massive momentum at the new hostel for the Bonfire night. The event attracted an enormous turnout. The President of the SRC, Emma Larteley Brown Jnr., symbolically lighted the bonfire flame to signify the official launch of the Akwaaba Week Celebrations. Unperturbed by the ban on drumming in the Abetifi Traditional Area, Oduro and New hostel boys treated students to scintillating Jama tunes. Students in ecstasy stupor danced in a circular fashion as the inferno raged on. The greatest spectacle of the night came when Kwame, Mc for the night, challenged Getty, a level 200 student, to a mind perplexing moment of dancing living most onlookers in shock to the point of jaw dropping. Most students averred that the Bon fire has been the best in the annals of the University.
Day 2, Food Bazaar. The food Bazaar was officially sponsored by ONGA and African Cola. The event was a cooking competition between programmes at the University. The SRC added a new twist to the event where every competing programme had an Icon. The Icons were drawn from both administrators and lecturers of the University. The cooking competition spanned for three hours. The Icons clad in their ONGA aprons epitomized to the delight of many that their dexterity is not only limited to the lecture halls and offices but the kitchen as well. Most students gazed in awe the sight of icons grinding spices in the earthenware (Apotoyiwa) during the cooking. While Kwame, Mc for the programme treated students to his theatrics and jokes, Dj Payola also did not disappoint behind the turntables as he wooed students with back to back classics. The atmosphere was further thrown into frenzy when Mr. Bempong, the Dean of Student, challenged Mr. Bright to a dance in the Icon dance segment of the event where the audience were made to decide on the winner.
Mad. Grace, connoisseur for the food bazaar, awarded the 1st position to Human Resource Management, the 2nd and 3rd positions went to Accounting & Finance and Agribusiness respectively.
Day 3. Rep your high school. The Rep your school day was one of the low points during the Week celebration. The event did not live up to expectation.
Day 4. WOCOM Fashion Show: The fashion show which was first of its kind was put together by the Women’s Commission (WOCOM), an appendage of the SRC. At a point I thought I was at the Vogue’s live fashion show in Italy but my fancy was cut short when Kwame the M.C screamed “DJ Payola give me the beat”. The show really lived up to the billing. In the ran up to the show some pockets of students queried the sale of tickets which went for GHC 4 and GHC 2 for both VIP and Ordinary respectively. However the organizers had something dazzling up their sleeves. The setting was spectacular. The decoration and the sitting arrangement were spot on. Those with VIP tickets sat right in the middle of the runway, flanked with those with the ordinary tickets. However those without tickets occupied sits stationed about 50 meters away from the runway. Another fascinating thing about the scenery was that only the models and those with tickets were illuminated whereas the rest sat in the dark. The show was subdivided into corporate, Casual, Traditional Wear (African).
The auditorium went gay when Emma Larteley Brown Jnr, the SRC president, hit the runway as the opening act for the catwalk flaunting her modelling skills to the admiration of the audience. All eyes were engrossed to the runway as the models poured out for the corporate catwalk, Casual and African wear catwalk. The audience were enthralled by the glitz and glamour the models exhibited.
The auditorium notably went dead when Alaska, artist for the night, took turns to perform. His songs failed to serenade the crowd. Unruffled by the seeming disapproval by patrons he performed about four of his songs which tentatively got the SRC president dancing. Also Daniel Badu, a gospel artist, was unsuccessful in his attempt to thrill fans with his worship songs when he performed. His performance summed the uninspiring narrative on musical performances for the night.
The models in the final leg of the catwalk outdoored a clothing line christened FIBLINS, produced by Felix Akwei Baah, a level 200 student. According to the narrative of pundits and most patrons who thronged the Great Hall 2 for the fashion show piece, the show was nothing less of a master class+
DAY 4. STUDENT ENTREPRENEURS’ SUMMIT: In a period where graduate unemployment has become a canker and an albatross on the neck of every government and even giving rise to the formation of the Graduate Unemployment Association of Ghana (GUAG), one would have thought that undergraduates of the Presbyterian University College would heed to call of entrepreneurship which most social commentators have alluded to as the panacea to the menace. The Summit surprisingly suffered a very low turnout. That notwithstanding resource persons for the summit gave off their very best to the few students around. Most participants left highly motivated to make a difference.
On the other hand, the scripts were completely altered at the Xoxo All white party at Modak when night fell. Very characteristic of students as regards to parties, the numbers were massive. Every available space in the enclave was awash by angelic looking human species fully clad in white apparels. As the ladies looked freaky and funky in their garbs, the gentlemen looked calm and collected ready to “tweee”. Before long, the dance floor went buzzing with intricate dance moves. The already charged atmosphere went agog and gaga when the SRC president amongst a group of dancers did a choreography of the famous “S3hos3ho wubeti gbee and the minam na mintiti” tunes of Castro. The excitement was however short lived because the guest Dj for the night consistently could not sustain the dancing pleasure with back to back hits. This did not obfuscate the overall fun, most partyers left pleased.
DAY 5. The week celebration ended with a football gala on Saturday at the Ramseyer Park.
Article by:
Daniel Odam Botchway
SRC PRO