{"id":207193,"date":"2025-09-15T06:48:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T04:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-embrace-performing-arts-for-national-development-henry-malm\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T06:48:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T04:48:52","slug":"ghana-embrace-performing-arts-for-national-development-henry-malm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-embrace-performing-arts-for-national-development-henry-malm\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Embrace Performing Arts for National Development &#8211; Henry Malm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">THE Chief Executive Officer of the National Theatre, Mr Henry Herbert Malm, has urged Ghanaians to embrace the performing arts as a tool for promoting national identity, unity and socio-cultural development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">He said performing arts was not just for entertainment, but a critical tool for promoting national identity, unity and socio-cultural development<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Mr Malm made the call yesterday at the launch of the 2025 edition of the Ghana Theatre Festival in Accra.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509120551.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE Chief Executive Officer of the National Theatre, Mr Henry Herbert Malm, has urged Ghanaians to embrace the performing arts as a tool for promoting national identity, unity and socio-cultural development. He said performing arts was not just for entertainment, but a critical tool for promoting national identity, unity and socio-cultural development Mr Malm made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":207194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,12300,5989,8321,4508,4509,19194,52345,6687,257,16544,254],"class_list":["post-207193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arts","tag-development","tag-embrace","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-henry","tag-malm","tag-national","tag-news","tag-performing","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}