Oral Ofori’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Ghanaian freelance journalist and blogger
Is

Journalist 

From

Ghana 

Type

Journalism 

Gender male
Birth 1980
Age: 40 years

Oral Kwame Ofori, professionally known as Oral Ofori is a Ghanaian-American award-winning digital media producer and blogger, freelance journalist, entrepreneur, and writer. Originally born in Tema, he is also the founder of the US-based communication consultancy TheAfricanDream LLC. In February 2018 Oral Ofori took on a Language interpretation job as a level II Interpreter of the Twi language with the Fairfax County Public Schools system.

Early life, career & education

Born to Ghanaian parents, Oral Ofori graduated Chemu Senior High School in 1998 and completed his journalism studies in 2006 with the London School of Journalism. The following year, he began an internship with the Voice Of America V.O.A in Washington, D.C. as a radio news reporter and contributor.

Oral is also a columnist for Ghanaian news websites like Ghanaweb, Modern Ghana, and the United States (US) based Afrikan Post newspaper. Ofori has also contributed to US publications like the Los Angeles Sentinel, Swedish news magazine ‘Beyond Borders’, the Dallas Weekly, the North Dallas Gazette, and the Baltimore Times.

Since 2014, Oral has been host and producer of #TheAfricanDream show [1] aired on Fairfax Public Access television’s channel 30.

Reporting and interviews

Oral Ofori has written about or interviewed persons including Mayor Peter Bossman, scientist and fiber optics innovator Dr. Thomas Mensah, Anthony K. Wutoh; Howard University Provost and Chief Academic Officer, and musician and artist Koby Maxwell.

Some of his other interview subjects have been Deborah Addo of INOVA Hospitals in the US, Grammy-Nominated musician and activist Rocky Dawuni, sportscaster Sonny Young of Voice Of America [2], Historic Quander family member Rohulamin Quander, Hege Hertzberg; the former Ambassador of Norway to Ghana, Gambia, Mali, Burkina Faso and Liberia, and among others Howard University Professor Michael C. Campbell.

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