The Omanhene of New Juaben, Daasebre Oti-Boateng has been hailed for his scholarly piece titled: �Development in Unity Volume One: Compendium of Works of Daasebre Prof. (Emeritus) Oti Boateng�.
Mr Nyaaba-Aweeba Azongo, a Development Planner, in a comprehensive review of the 500- page book copied to Ghana News Agency, in Kumasi said it sets new parameters in global biographic presentation.
He said it encapsulates the historic exploits of Daasebre as a high-standing international scholar recognised by the American Biographical Institute as one of the greatest minds of the 21st century.
He said the book is iconic in many respects: a break-away brand, a bridge of culture and scholarship and a masterpiece of art that conveys passion, intellectual astuteness and charisma driven by a vision for development.
According to Mr Azongo, �the book is a moment of intellectual genius which potentially could define Africa�s pride of place in global leadership and intellectual assertiveness�.
He said it conveys the Author�s deep sense of history by reproducing with amazing clarity record of events that involved him from as far back as the second world-war through Ghana�s independence era to the most recent times.
The high point is how the book has been expertly dove-tailed into the Akwantukese Festival, a post-independence traditional Festival in Ghana pioneered by the author as the Omanhene to bring an important part of Asante History, the Great Migration, into contemporary significance.
�He presents the book blended with his exploits as part of an institution skillfully designed for national and global consumption � a historic threshold of New Juaben footprint in Ghana, Africa and global development.�
Mr Azongo said it is in this context, that it attains an institutional legitimacy as a product of the institution of New Juaben and Asante History, and not just as an individual master piece of personal episode.
He said per its philosophy and design; the book co-evolves with the festival of his people thus giving it a permanent presence in history and inter-generational essence.
He said it exudes a distinctive compass of lessons for posterity and a pillar of enduring legacy.
Mr Azongo said the striking feature of Daasebre�s concept of change lies in bringing two worlds: modernism and culture into a common realm, a singular course in the pursuit of humanity which could be blended in harmony to underline total development.
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