Background
Kojo Yankah was born at Agona Duakwa in the Agona East District of the Central Region of Ghana.
editor founder Minister of State
Kojo Yankah was born at Agona Duakwa in the Agona East District of the Central Region of Ghana.
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 where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Honors degree in English.
He also served as a Minister of State in the Rawlings government. 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 This institution has now become the African University College of, affiliated to the University of Ghana and with accreditation from the National Accreditation Board in March 2004.
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. Kojo Yankah married Susan Roseline Esi Thompson, a Home Economics tutor in 1977. She died on 30 July 2001 from a respiratory ailment.
He is currently married to Ekua Essandoh.
With the return to party politics in Ghana, Yankah stood for elections as Member of Parliament in the Ghanaian parliamentary election, 1992 on the National Democratic Congress ticket and won the seat for the Agona East constituency.