Abraham Attah appointed Free SHS ambassador
Young Ghanaian actor Abraham Attah has been appointed an ambassador for government’s flagship "Free Senior High School" programme.
The Minister of Education, Matthew Opoku Prempeh unveiled the Best of No Nation star today, June 22 at a short ceremony in Accra.
As part of his mandate, Attah who schools in the United States, is expected to help popularise the Free SHS initiative.
The child actor started schooling in the USA on August 30, 2016 and was recently presented with the Scholastic Improvement Award by the Chershire Academy in Connecticut.
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The Free SHS policy was one of the major campaign messages of President Akufo-Addo in the run-up to December, 2016 polls.
Abraham Attah gained international prominence playing lead role alongside Idris Elba in the movie Beasts of No Nation directed by Emmy Award-winning Cary Fukunaga.
Playing the character ‘Agu’ who when civil war tears his family apart, is forced to join a unit of mercenary fighters and transformed into a child soldier earned Attah praise around the world.
He won Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor at Venice Film Festival 2015, ‘Best Male Lead’ award at the 2016 Independent Spirit Awards, and also Rising Star Award’ at the Black Film Critics Circle (BFCC). The award scheme called Attah’s role as “one of the strongest and most phenomenal we have ever seen” and added that he had “a very bright future ahead of him”.
The movie was based on the 2005 novel of the same title by Uzodinma Iweala. Shot in Ghana, it starred Ama K. Abebrese, Fred Amugi and Grace Nortey.
The movie was the first fictional feature produced and distributed by Streaming Service Netflix.
