Vera Kwakofi

That is true - since joining the BBC World Service in 2002,Vera Daisy Kwakofi has risen through the ranks and is now the head of Current Affairs for BBC Africa since December last year. She is in charge of 35 producers and journalists in London, as well as at least 10 correspondents across Africa.

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I grew up in Ghana listening to the BBC as a young child and in choosing to become a journalist, the BBC was always my benchmark for journalistic excellence and what I'm passionate about; public service broadcasting with a purpose of delivering information, as well as impact," Vera says.

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Vera has also served as Editorial Advisor to the Head of the BBC's Global News Division (it comprises BBC World Service, BBC World News television, BBC Monitoring and BBC Media Action) with responsibility for overseeing editorial compliance and complaints management across the division as well as the delivery of editorial strategy.

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Vera is the oldest of six children (four brothers and a sister). Vera had her secondary education at Accra Girls Senior `High School for her GCE 'O' Level?from 1987 to 1992 and then to the Ghana Senior High School, Koforidua from 1992 to 1994 for her GCE 'A'?Level. She did her national service at Assin Kushea in the Central Region, which is Sir Sam Jonah's hometown, which she said it was an eye-opening experience for her as a 19-year-old teaching in a village.

 
Prior to embarking on her radio career, she trained at theGhana Institute of Journalism between 1995 and 1997.She also holds an Msc in Consultant Management and Organisational Change from the University of London's Birkbeck College, as well as a degree in Politics from the London Guidhall now London Metropolitan University. The principles that she has always been guided by and had tried to live by are fairness and personal responsibility.

 
Vera is passionate about sports, radio journalism, literacy and the arts. She wrote her first screenplay for a short film Lareba, which was made in 2000. She loves musical theatre and possibly in another life, she would be writing and composing for the stage.

Source - Zoom Info