Ama Dadson CEO AkooBooks Audio 🇬🇭

Grateful for a fun-filled and inspiring day at Author Digital Labs and Monday Design Co.’s #DiscovHer event. The panels were excellent, thoughtfully exploring the business of creativity, building systems, and reinforcing the power of joyful networking. Key takeaways: network, network, network and don’t be afraid to carve out your own unique creative niche! Plus, the goodie box? Absolutely fabulous. I made new friends, met potential collaborators, and even sparked an idea for an exciting new book/podcast. What more could I ask for! ✨❤️👏🏽

These kinds of games can help reduce screen time.

Great discussion at @TechLabari’s “Pathways to AI Leadership for Women” at the Google AI Community Centre. Key question I raised: How do we ensure the algorithms shaping Africa’s digital future don’t quietly reproduce the inequalities African women already face offline? Thanks to keynote Winnie Dzidzonu, MTN and the excellent panel for a rich conversation on AI governance, digital rights, and opportunity. If AI is shaping the future, African women must shape AI. #WomenInAI #AIinAfrica

On Friday, March 13th, we'll be hosting our Women and AI event. This event will convene business leaders and young professionals to explore the future of women’s leadership in artificial intelligence. Due to limited space, sign up for virtual viewing: buff.ly/1k2Xci4

the longlist for the 2026 international booker prize is out now! my fellow judges and i spent the past eight months reading and deliberating on over 120 books, and we are so proud of the final 13! please read, share, gift, and review/discuss these books. thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…

Grateful to have joined #ParixAudioDay in Madrid at the beautiful @fundacionGSR 🇪🇸 Great conversation on building truly global #audiobooks catalogues, especially for language diasporas seeking stories that feel like home. At AkooBooks Audio, we believe audio is access. African stories. Global reach. 🎧 #AudioPublishing

How do we build a global audio catalogue? Through collaboration, linguistic diversity, and a commitment to authentic storytelling across borders. Proud to represent AkooBooks Audio in this international conversation at #PARIXAudioDay26. African stories are global stories. 🎧

@fundacionGSR @HachetteUS Gracias por la invitación a #PARIXAudioDay26 🙏🏽 It was a pleasure to join such an international conversation on building truly global audiobook catalogues, especially for language diasporas seeking stories that feel like home. Audio is opportunity. 🎧

¿Cómo se construye un catálogo global de audio? 🌍 Debatimos con: Nataly Villena Vega (@HachetteUS), Julia Balogh (Parkum Publishing), Ama Dadson (@akoobooks) y Lasse Korsemann Horne (Saga Egmont) 👀 Una visión internacional dentro de un sector con grandes oportunidades. #PARIXAudioDay26

Looking to work with 4 women who are genuinely interested in taking publishing in Nigeria to the next level. Let’s go!!

Just got my copy!❤️🙏🏾

A beautiful evening of Love Notes, prose, poetry, music (and of course chocolate) at @MansaGoldGh, The Grove last night…continuing the magic… there were several beautiful handwritten notes tied to the trees with ribbon. I brought a handful home, rolled into little scrolls and placed in my living room tray — treasures to savour, for myself and for those I love. ❤️ 🙏🏾

📚 Excited to announce I’ll be attending The London Book Fair from 10–12 March 2026 at Olympia London! ✨ It’s where stories, rights, and ideas connect — and the future of publishing takes shape. See you there? 🤝 #LBF #StoriesWithoutLimits Register here: invt.io/1txbuc13h90

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I had a wonderful afternoon discussing all things audiobook at the Arise Book Academy with participants in the Audiobook Production Workshop, many from the @alueducation, where my daughter just enrolled. The @ayina_rw is a remarkable space for literature, reflection, and critical thinking. Thank you to Founder & Chair @DamienMouzoun for nurturing ideas and community with such care. We missed Mutesi Gasana, but I was in excellent hands throughout. #Audiobooks #AfricanPublishing #CreativeEducation #AfricanVoices #Kigali

Korkor, Yvonne, and Elorm are such a joy—eloquent, funny, and clearly well-read. Can’t wait to listen to the Cyto Podcast. Ayeeko! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

@SIKAOFFICIAL1 Wow! Korkor, Yvonne and Elorm are amazingly eloquent and funny, I look forward to listening to the Cyto Podcast! And I love that they are all readers. Ayeeko. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Three young Ghanaian students have caught global admiration after their wonderful debut of the ‘Cyto’ Podcast show, a series of presentations geared towards reshaping the perception of public schools. With impeccable fluency and wit, the trio stunned viewers, promising more surprises from the less endowed ‘cyto’ schools.

Grateful to our authors, narrators, publishers, creatives, production partners, investors, advisors, distributors, and the wider AkooBooks community for your support, generosity, and belief in our work this year. Demanding at times, deeply rewarding always. Thank you for building with us. Season’s greetings and best wishes for the year ahead. ✨

@barkervogues Many Happy Returns. Have a Blessed and Wonderful day.

For today my 39th birthday, i have but one message to myself…. A poem by John Milton. One of my favourites. “When I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one Talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my Soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide; “Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?” I fondly ask. But patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, “God doth not need Either man’s work or his own gifts; who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state Is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed And post o’er Land and Ocean without rest: They also serve who only stand and wait.”