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Emmanuel.K. Bensah

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About Emmanuel.K. Bensah

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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March 3rd, 2007

Ghana: Perspectives of Ghana at 50

A small portrait of the translator Emmanuel.K. Bensah · 10:15 · South Korea , Ghana
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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 and heard throughout the country. It therefore comes as a little surprise that (young) Ghanaians might just fall a tad ... 0 comments  · read »

January 26th, 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

A small portrait of the translator Emmanuel.K. Bensah · 13:47 · Ghana
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 she defines as: a dry dusty wind that blows along the northwest coast of Africa. Its time-frame, she describes as “usually ... 7 comments  · read »

December 6th, 2006

Voices from Ghana

A small portrait of the translator Emmanuel.K. Bensah · 07:47 · Sub-Saharan Africa
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 without its particular problems, but for these bloggers, some are more acute and note-worthy than others. The first complaint lodged is ... 0 comments  · read »

November 1st, 2006

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

A small portrait of the translator Emmanuel.K. Bensah · 12:04 · Sub-Saharan Africa
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, the country’s leading mobile phone provider, on its provision of wireless mobile Internet using GPRS: “why is Areeba charging ... 1 comment  · read »

October 17th, 2006

Travelling with “Tro-Tro” in Ghana

A small portrait of the translator Emmanuel.K. Bensah · 10:55 · Sub-Saharan Africa
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 repair, rarely striped or shouldered” roads that dot the country and the capital. She posts a few pictures of the ... 0 comments  · read »
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