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Emmanuel.K. Bensah

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11 posts · joined 2006-10-5

Emmanuel.K.Bensah is a Communications Officer (Web Journalist) for a leading African non-profit organisation Third World Network-Africa, which works on seeking, through research and advocacy, to provide policy space on gender, trade and development-related issues.

He has been a keen blogger since March 2005, maintaining four blogs regularly, including Trials and Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen…of Ghana, which has been featured on Global Voices since August 2005; as well as creating the first daily photo blog from Africa, which you can read here: http://accradailyphoto.blogspot.com.

Emmanuel has many interests, and few passions, which are: regional integration; UN issues; diplomatic history; community advocacy; and international development issues.

He is acting President of the Ghana Association of Journalists in ICT (GHAJICT), whose blog you can check here: http://ghajict.blogspot.com

You can find out more about him by visiting http://www.ekbensah.net

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July 15th, 2009

Ghana: Hope and candour float in Ghana following Obama's visit

A small portrait of the translator Emmanuel.K. Bensah · 13:26 · Sub-Saharan Africa
In anticipation of the coming of US president Barack Obama to Ghana from 10-11th July, the ghanablogging.com community—established in 2008 to promote the work of Ghanaian bloggersand bloggers writing about Ghana—set a theme entitled “Obama’s visit: A View from Ghana”. Below are some of the highlights of the blog entries. 0 comments  · read »

February 5th, 2008

Football Comes Home to Ghana

A small portrait of the translator Emmanuel.K. Bensah · 10:16 · Sub-Saharan Africa
For the past three weeks, soccer has come home—literally—and Ghanaians of all walks of life have not been immune to the excitement and ecstasy it has generated throughout the country. 1 comment  · read »

September 28th, 2007

Ghana: Did God save the Akosombo Dam?

A small portrait of the translator Emmanuel.K. Bensah · 12:57 · Sub-Saharan Africa
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We start off this week’s review with Ghana’s electricity crisis, which started in August 2006, but has seen a considerable improvement almost a year later. Could it be because priests prayed for the Akosombo Dam to fill up? 0 comments  · read »

July 9th, 2007

EXCLUSIVE!–>Interview with the Host of the BBC-Award-Winning Citi FM Breakfast Show

A small portrait of the translator Emmanuel.K. Bensah · 22:02 · Sub-Saharan Africa
The Trials and Tribulations of a Freshly-Arrived Denizen...posts an exclusive interview he conducted of Bernard Avle, the host of the CITI Breakfast Show, which won the BBC Radio Award for "Best Interactive Show in Africa". Bernard Avle(left) He cuts a contemplative and tall figure. Be-spectacled with some degree of seriousness ... 0 comments  · read »

July 3rd, 2007

Voices from Ghana: It's Not All About the Energy Crisis; Stanbic Takes Over Ghana's ADB?; New Currency Arrives

A small portrait of the translator Emmanuel.K. Bensah · 08:18 · Sub-Saharan Africa
Ghana might be going through an energy crisis, but, somehow, that has not deterred both expatriate and Ghanaian bloggers from making surprisingly positive comments about the country in which they live in. We open this week’s reviews with two of such entries. The first is by a Ghanaian blogger Got ... 2 comments  · read »

April 19th, 2007

Voices from Ghana: The Black Star of Africa Eclipsed by Energy Crisis; Ghana@50, So What?

A small portrait of the translator Emmanuel.K. Bensah · 17:52 · Sub-Saharan Africa
The pomp and pageantry surrounding the celebrations of Ghana@50 may be over, but the analysis of what it means for Ghana has spawned a number of ruminations for both Ghanaian bloggers and those blogging about Ghana. Let’s start with a particularly interesting post by a Canadian blogger-couple A Canadian Couple Relishes ... 6 comments  · read »
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