The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has announced that Ambassador Kabral Blay-Amihere, a former President of the Association and Diplomat, will deliver the first in the series of its 75th Anniversary Public Lectures in Kumasi on Tuesday, June 18, 2024.
The public lecture, which the GJA is organising, in collaboration with the Department of Language and Communication Sciences of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), will take place at the Social Science New Block Basement 5 (B5), KNUST, at 9:30am.
A press release signed by the General Secretary, Kofi Yeboah said, “The Director-General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), Prof Amin Alhassan; the Provost of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, KNUST, Prof Charles Ofosu Marfo, and the Head of the Department of Language and Communication Sciences, KNUST, Dr Victoria O. Faleke, are other speakers on the bill.”
The Chief of Apemanim in Ashanti, Nana Fobi Kropa III (known privately as Prof Kwasi Ansu-Kyeremeh), will chair the programme, which will be attended by media practitioners, heads of media institutions, media partners, lecturers and students of journalism / communication.
The theme for the GJA 75th Anniversary is: “75 years of excellence in journalism: Honouring the past, embracing the present and shaping the future”.
However, Ambassador Kabral, a historian deep and steep in media and national affairs, will address the sub-theme: “75 years of excellence in journalism: Honouring the past and embracing the future”.
“With enormous experience in journalism practice and training, including leadership roles at the national and international levels in those respects, he is expected to do great justice to the sub-theme and set a perfect tone for the 75th Anniversary Public Lecture Series,” the release noted.
Having been a two-term chairman of the National Media Commission (NMC), Ambassador Kabral, who also served as Ghana’s Ambassador to Sierra Leone and Cote d’Ivoire in the Kufuor Administration, brings in-depth knowledge in media regulation and policy to the table.
The GJA further stated that, “The National Executive, on the advice of the 75th Anniversary Planning Committee, could not have chosen a better person to begin the anniversary lectures than Ambassador Kabral, and we are grateful to him for accepting to do so.”
The GJA expressed gratitude “to MTN Ghana, Wisconsin International University College, Ghana, and GBC for their kind sponsorship.”
The second in the series of the 75th Anniversary Public Lectures will take place in Ho, the Volta Regional capital, in July, with two distinguished media personalities – Prof Kwame Karikari and Cameron Duodu – on schedule.
