Fritz Baffour is a Ghanaian journalist, politician and communications consultant.
Background
Baffour was born in Accra, the capital of Ghana. His father was R. P. Baffour, an academician and one of the first Ghanaian mechanical engineers as well as the first Ghanaian Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
Career
His mother was a midwife. His secondary education was at the Prempeh College and the Technology Secondary School, both in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. He obtained his General Certificate of Education Ordinary Level certificate in 1968.
His sixth form education was at the City of Bath College in Avon in the United Kingdom between 1972 and 1974, completing with the General Certificate of Education Advanced Level certificate.
Baffour also attended the Bristol Polytechnic between 1974 and 1976. Fritz Baffour did a Masters degree in Communication Studies from the Leicester University between 2007 and 2012.
Baffour worked as a journalist. He was a producer with Ghana Television, the television channel of the state owned Ghana Broadcasting Corporation as a producer and director
He has also worked with Liberian Television, Nigerian Television, Tyne Tees television United Kingdom, Diverse Production in United Kingdom and Back to Back Productions United States of America. He was also a media consultant to the government of Jerry Rawlings.
He was appointed Minister for information by President John Atta Mills in 2012.
Politics
He is a member of the National Democratic Congress in Ghana. Baffour was involved with the National Democratic Congress from its inception in 1991.
Membership
He is the Member of Parliament for Ablekuma South constituency in the Parliament of Ghana and the Minister for Information of Ghana. He became a member of parliament in January 2009 after winning the Ablekuma South seat in the Ghanaian parliamentary election in 2008.