A Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Professor Stephen Offei has advised young graduates and the youth in general to build up their self confidence as they face the challenges in life. “Young graduates should as much as possible build their self-confidence”, said Professor Offei adding that whatever ambitions that young graduates have they should pursue them. Professor Offei advised again that graduates and young people “should with single-mindedness have great interests in whatever they are pursuing”.
Professor Stephen Offei gave the advice during “Young Eagles Summit”, a seminar organized by Right Your Writing Association (RYWA-Ghana), a non-governmental organization that instills the attitude of right reading and writing among young people. The seminar under the theme “Reading and Writing, Effective Tools for Social Change” and held on Saturday 22 October, 2011 at the Faculty of Law Auditorium, KNUST brought together many students from Elite College, KNUST Senior High School and KNUST.
In his speech, Mr. Richard Obeng Mensah, Chief Executive Officer of RYWA-Ghana, said RYWA-Ghana exists to empower the youth in Ghana to positively shape the thinking and paradigms of the Ghanaian society through the power of reading and writing. He added that there was the need to inculcate the habit of right reading and writing in the youth in Ghana with the aim of making them real readers, real writers and real leaders.
Mr. Obeng Mensah in an interviewed charged the youth in the country to awake and take the challenges of the country and African continent as opportunities to make great impacts. He stated that “through right reading and writing the youth would develop innovative ways to help transform Ghana and Africa at large”. In his final comment, Mr. Obeng Mensah assured that “there would be a great life-transforming revival in Ghana and Africa through the works RYWA-Ghana is doing”
The Young Eagles Summit dubbed the “YES Project” was organized to equip the youth with right reading, right writing and right leadership to engender the change that Ghana and Africa is calling for. The project also marked the first anniversary of RYWA-Ghana.

BY: Stephen Yeboah [stephenyeboah110@yahoo.com]