Ajoa Yeboah-Afari | |
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| Born | March 13, 1950  |
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| Occupation | Writer, journalist |
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Ajoa Victoria Yeboah-Afari (born March 13, 1950) [1] is a Ghanaian journalist and author. She is a former editor of The Ghanaian Times and former president of the Ghana Journalists Association.
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Ajoa Yeboah-Afari was born on March 13, 1950 in the Brong-Ahafo region of Ghana, the daughter of Ghanaian politician Boahene Yeboah-Afari. She was educated at Dormaa Senior High School and Labone Senior High School, then went on to graduate from the Ghana Institute of Journalism in 1970 and the University of Ghana in 1973. Later in life she attended the International Institute for Journalism in Berlin. [2]
Her journalism career began with The Sunday Mirror under editor Eddie Agyeman, where she worked for over sixteen years. From 1970 to 1973 she had a weekly column called "Yaa Yaa's World," collected in the book The Best of Yaa Yaa. Following complaints that her column was unfair to men, The Mirror added another column, "Male Mutterings" by Koo Pia, which was actually the pseudonym of another female Mirror staffer. Under editor Nicholas Alando, she began another column in 1976 called "Thoughts of a Native Daughter", likewise collected as A Decade of Thoughts of a Native Daughter (1988). [3]
She worked as a freelance reporter from 1984 to 1997, reporting for West Africa magazine, the British Broadcasting Corporation, and the Women’s Feature Service of India. She was elected president of the Ghana Journalists Association in 2003 and served as editor of The Ghanaian Times from 2004 to 2008. [2] [4]