Mr.Kojo Yankah

Born at Agona Duakwa in Ghana August 16, 1945. Educated at Adisadel College, Cape Coast, and then up to graduate level at the University of Ghana, Legon, University of Nairobi, Kenya, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Worked variously as Tutor, Adisadel College, Cape Coast, Public Relations Manager in a number of public companies, including GIHOC and SSNIT, and as journalist and broadcaster for 10 years. Appointed editor of the national daily The Daily Graphic in 1981, and became director of Ghana Institute of Journalism in 1984 for 9 years. Entered politics in 1992 and won a seat as Member of Parliament for Agona East. Was MP and Minister of State for two terms (1993-2000), serving as Member of the National Media Commission, Deputy Minister of Information, Minister of Central Region, and subsequently Minister of Ashanti Region. In 2001, quit politics to establish, first, a marketing communications consultancy YANKAH & ASSOCIATES, and second the first university college of journalism and communications in Africa, the AFRICAN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATIONS, based in Accra, Ghana.

Author of six books and coeditor of a book on Marketing Communications. Has published a number of articles in national and international media and journals.
Ghana.

He is recipient of a number of international awards including Langston Hughes prize for Creative Writing, Davidson Nichol Award for Short Stories, and Award for Best Journalist in the North-South Educational Campaign organized by the then Council of Europe (1990).

He has attended and addressed a number of international conferences on issues ranging from Journalism & Communication, through the New media to Pan-Africanism. Until recently he was for 10 years Chair of the international pan-africanist festival, PANAFEST.

Kojo Yankah is currently chair of the Ghana Heritage Conservation Trust and Fellow of the Institute of Public Relations Ghana.

He is well travelled on all the five continents on the globe.