From Global Experience to National Transformation: A Call to Lead and Inspire
Saturday, 08 Mar 2025 at 6:00 pm – Advanced Teaching Research Building (ATRB) 1302
Ghana's Independence Day Celebration and LectureManasseh Azure Awuni is an author and investigative journalist whose work has resulted in the passage of a law by Ghana’s parliament, cancellation of government contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and prosecution and jailing of persons. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of The Fourth Estate, a non-profit, public-interest journalism project founded by the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA).Manasseh was named Ghana’s Journalist of the Year for 2011 (a year after graduating from journalism school) by the Ghana Journalists Association. In 2018 and 2020, the Media Foundation for West Africa named him West Africa Journalist of the Year. He was adjudged the overall best journalist at the 2023 Norbert Zongo African Prize for Investigative Journalism (PAJI-NZ). Manasseh is the author of four nonfiction books: Voice of Conscience (2016), Letters to My Future Wife (2017), The Fourth John: Reign, Rejection & Rebound (2019), Investigative Journalism in Africa: A Practical Manual (2023), and The President Ghana Never Got (2024). Manasseh was a Nieman Journalism Fellowship at Harvard University for the 2023-2024 academic year.This lecture is part of the Ghana Students Association’s Maiden Ghana Independence and Cultural Celebration at ISU campus. Participation in this event is free. Note: This lecture is not available for card scanning and will not be recorded.Ghana's Independence Day Celebration and LectureManasseh Azure Awuni is an author and investigative journalist whose work has resulted in the passage of a law by Ghana’s parliament, cancellation of government contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and prosecution and jailing of persons. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of The Fourth Estate, a non-profit, public-interest journalism project founded by the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA).Manasseh was named Ghana’s Journalist of the Year for 2011 (a year after graduating from journalism school) by the Ghana Journalists Association. In 2018 and 2020, the Media Foundation for West Africa named him West Africa Journalist of the Year. He was adjudged the overall best journalist at the 2023 Norbert Zongo African Prize for Investigative Journalism (PAJI-NZ). Manasseh is the author of four nonfiction books: Voice of Conscience (2016), Letters to My Future Wife (2017), The Fourth John: Reign, Rejection & Rebound (2019), Investigative Journalism in Africa: A Practical Manual (2023), and The President Ghana Never Got (2024). Manasseh was a Nieman Journalism Fellowship at Harvard University for the 2023-2024 academic year.This lecture is part of the Ghana Students Association’s Maiden Ghana Independence and Cultural Celebration at ISU campus. Participation in this event is free. Note: This lecture is not available for card scanning and will not be recorded.
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