{"id":222264,"date":"2026-01-30T00:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T22:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-visual-arts-can-promote-education-alleviate-poverty\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T00:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T22:13:14","slug":"ghana-visual-arts-can-promote-education-alleviate-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-visual-arts-can-promote-education-alleviate-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Visual Arts Can Promote Education, Alleviate Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Award-winning Ghanaian visual artist, Mr Anthony Jefferson Hanson, has described the arts as a life-changing profession and urged Ghanaians to place greater value on it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Speaking on the theme <em>&#8220;Inspiring the Next Generation: Harnessing Sustainable and Innovative Approaches to Arts and Sports&#8221;<\/em> at an event organised by the U.S. Embassy in Accra on Tuesday, Mr Hanson noted that the arts often did not receive the attention and recognition they deserved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">He said the arts had the power to transform lives&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601290660.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>Award-winning Ghanaian visual artist, Mr Anthony Jefferson Hanson, has described the arts as a life-changing profession and urged Ghanaians to place greater value on it. Speaking on the theme &#8220;Inspiring the Next Generation: Harnessing Sustainable and Innovative Approaches to Arts and Sports&#8221; at an event organised by the U.S. Embassy in Accra on Tuesday, Mr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":222265,"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":[258,256,16008,12300,1632,4508,4509,257,7121,7067,254,15629],"class_list":["post-222264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alleviate","tag-arts","tag-education","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-poverty","tag-promote","tag-south-africa-today","tag-visual"],"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\/222264","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=222264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}