Vice President Hosts Abraham Attah

Ghanaian teenage movie star Abraham Attah has been hosted by vice president Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur at the Flagstaff House in Accra.

The 14-year-old international star returned home from the United States after presenting an award at the 2016 Oscars and also winning ‘Best Male Lead’ at the 2016 Independent Spirit Awards last weekend.

Attah who has been in the news all week for his achievement touched down at the Kotoka International Airport in the morning and was met on arrival by a team of MK Casting led by his manager Mawuko Kuadzi, members of the press and a large number fans who stormed the area to see the ‘Beasts of No Nation’ star.

Attah who shot to fame with his lead role of Agu, a child soldier in his debut movie, was driven to the Flagstaff House where he had a chat with the vice president.

H.E Amissah-Arthur congratulated Abraham Attah “for promoting Ghana and for being a fine ambassador for our country. ”

Abraham Attah has won two other major awards including the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor at Venice Film Festival 2015 and ‘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”.

Based on the 2005 novel of the same title by Uzodinma Iweala, the movie was shot in Ghana and also stars Ama K. Abebrese, Fred Amugi and Grace Nortey.

It was directed by Emmy Award-winning Cary Fukunaga, and the first fictional feature produced and distributed by Streaming Service Netflix.