Kojo Yankah’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Ghanaian MP
Is Politician 
From Ghana 
Type Politics 
Gender male
Birth 16 August 1945
Age: 75 years
Star sign Leo
Politics National Democratic Congress
Education
University of Ghana

Kojo Acquah Yankah (born 16 August 1945) is a former Member of Parliament in Ghana. He also served as a Minister of State in the Rawlings government. He is the founder and President of the African University College of Communications and is also a former editor of the Daily Graphic, the widest circulation newspaper in Ghana.

Education

Kojo Yankah was born at Agona Duakwa in the Agona East District of the Central Region of Ghana. His primary education was in various schools in the Central Region. He attended Adisadel College for his secondary education. He then taught for a few years before proceeding to the University of Ghana where he graduated with a B.A. Honors degree in English.

Communications

After graduation, Kojo Yankah taught at the Adisadel College for two years. He worked with various government institutions including the Information Services Department and the Social Security and National Insurance Trust. In 1982, after the Provisional National Defence Council military government came to power, he was appointed editor of the government owned Daily Graphic newspaper which had the highest circulation in Ghana. He was later appointed Director of the Ghana Institute of Journalism.
In 2001, he established the Africa Institute of Journalism and Communications. This institution has now become the African University College of Communications, affiliated to the University of Ghana and with accreditation from the National Accreditation Board in March 2004.

Politics

With the return to party politics in Ghana, Yankah stood for elections as MP in the 1992 Ghanaian parliamentary election on the National Democratic Congress ticket and won the seat for the Agona East constituency. He retained the seat in the 1996 election to have a second term. During the second term of the Rawlings government, Yankah was first appointed Central Regional Minister. He was later shifted to Ashanti Regional Minister, a position he held for only 11 months before he was moved to the National Development Planning Commission as a Minister of State. This led to his resignation from the government.

Family

Kojo Yankah married Susan Roseline Esi Thompson, a Home Economics tutor in 1977. She died on 30 July 2001 from a respiratory ailment. He was married to Ekua Essandoh., now deceased.

He is also the brother of Kwesi Yankah who is the Minister of Tertiary Education in Government of Nana Akuffo Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP),

Publications

  • Yankah, Kojo (1982). Crossroads at Ankobea. Accra: Asempa. ISBN 978-9964-78-044-9.
  • Yankah, Kojo (1984). End of a journey: or a journalists report from the Libyan Jamahiriya. Dateline. ASIN B001A1GSSQ.
  • Yankah, Kojo (1989).Dialogue with the North
  • Yankah, Kojo (1990). The story of Namibia. p. 140. ISBN 978-9964-91-002-0.
  • Yankah, Kojo (1990). Woes of a Kwatriot: Reflections on the Ghanaian Situation. Woeli Publishing Services. ISBN 978-9964904258.
  • Yankah, Kojo (1992). The trial of J.J. Rawlings: Echoes of the 31st December Revolution. U.B. & U.S. Communication Systems. ISBN 978-1564110398.
  • Yankah, Kojo (2007). Introduction to Branding and Marketing Communications Management.
  • Yankah, Kojo (2009). Otumfuo Osei Tutu II: the King on the Golden Stool.
  • Skinner, Chris; Kiuluku, Peter; Tikolo, Kentice; Yankah, Kojo (2016). Proactive Public Relations (Kindle ed.). Moran Publishers and Worldreader.
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