A veteran journalist and former Chairman of the National Media Commission, Nana Kwasi Gyan-Apenteng, has passed on in London. He is said to have died on Monday.
He was 74.
Nana Gyan-Apenteng, former editor and columnist of The Mirror weekly newspaper, was the Apagyahene of Tafo Eti in the Eastern Region.
He was deputy editor of the erstwhile London-based West Africa magazine in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Returning to Ghana in the 1990s, Nana Gyan-Apenteng worked with the Third World Network as head of the non-governmental organization’s communication unit and editor of its monthly magazine, Africa Agenda.
He served as media trainer and communication consultant for several corporate, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations including: the telecoms giant MTN, some UN agencies, the Media Foundation for West Africa, STAR Ghana and others.
He wad a graduate of Apam Secondary School and the University of Ghana, Legon. He is survived by six children. Burial and funeral arrangements will be announced by the family in due course.
