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Emmanuel.K. Bensah

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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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Latest posts by Emmanuel.K. Bensah

3 March 2007

Ghana: Perspectives of Ghana at 50

Like most Sub-Saharan Africans, Ghanians use the English language—not only as a lingua franca, but also as the official language. They use English on top of many local languages—and dialects—spoken...

26 January 2007

Ghana: It's Harmattan again, Re-denomination of Ghanian Currency Looms Large, Why the Ghanian Worker Wants to Leave, and 82 Steps to Renew a Visa

Ghana is currently experiencing a harmattan, and this state of play evidently does not escape the comment of Leanne, of An American in Africa, who explains how the harmattan, which...

6 December 2006

Voices from Ghana

This week’s voices from Ghana remind us that Obruni (white or foreigner) bloggers in Ghana are well and truly getting used to the country for its problem. No country is...

1 November 2006

Voices from Ghana: Mobile Internet, “Obruni” in Ghana, and Clash of Cultures

We open Ghana voices this week with a complaints-ridden compilation, which begins with a post about wireless mobile Internet. Proudly African blogger David Ajao has some serious questions for Areeba,...

17 October 2006

Travelling with “Tro-Tro” in Ghana

Ghana voices this week are from entries written about Ghana by non-Ghanaians. The first, by Leanne, writing in her blog An American in Africa, marvels at the “ever-evolving, always under...

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