Emmanuel.K. Bensah

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

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

  15 July 2009

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.

Football Comes Home to Ghana

  5 February 2008

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.

Ghana: Did God save the Akosombo Dam?

  28 September 2007

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?

Ghana: Perspectives of Ghana at 50

  3 March 2007

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...

Voices from Ghana

  6 December 2006

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...

Travelling with “Tro-Tro” in Ghana

  17 October 2006

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...