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Radio Ghana. Akpabli developed a strategy on how to use
Valentine's Day celebration in Ghana to promote domestic tourism. Broadcast on Radio Ghana news bulletin – 14 February 2005, observers believe that this influenced the institution of February 14 as National Chocolate Day in Ghana. In September 2007 he was among five journalists from Africa who won a place to participate in the United Nations Department of Public Information conference on Climate Change held in UN Headquarters, New York. He currently writes a weekly column 'Going Places' in the Mirror
126:, Akpabli grew up in Kotobabi and had his primary education at Providence Preparatory School, transferring in his final year to St. Kizito Middle School at Nima. He started Secondary education at Some Secondary School, Agbozume in the Volta Region of Ghana and continued at Nsaba Presby Secondary School at Agona Nsaba in the Central Region where he obtained his 'O' Level Certificate in 1990. He proceeded to St. Paul's Secondary School, Denu from 1990 to 1992; obtaining 'A' Level Certificate from here.
106:, publisher, tourism consultant and cultural activist. He is a two-time winner of the CNN Multichoice African Journalist for Arts and Culture Awards. His latest work 'Made in Nima' has been featured in the new Commonwealth Anthology which was published in May 2016 Safe House: Explorations into Creative Non-Fiction. Akpabli has four books to his credit and currently works as a lecturer at
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from 2000 to 2002 and finishing as a
Principal Marketing officer at the Head Office of the Ghana Tourist Authority in Accra. Other portfolios he handled in the same organization include; Senior Marketing Officer in the Greater Accra Regional Office, Senior Resource Officer in the Bolgatanga Office.
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His article on Baobab in 2002 won an award in the
International Federation of Environmental Journalists contest organized by Conservation International. The winning story entitled 'Baobab Baobab and More' was published in the Ghanaian Daily Mail. He also wrote news commentaries which were aired on
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Akpabli describes himself as a writer and cultural activist whose scholarly interests include researching and communicating key values of
African arts and culture. Since January 2012, he has been a writing a weekly travel column entitled "Going Places" which focuses on culture and tourism issues
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Graphic Showbiz, a weekly newspaper of the Ghraphic Communication Group. His beat was on the environment and tourism issues. He also freelanced for the Daily Graphic, Ghanaian Times, Business and Financial Times Weekly Spectator, Public Agenda and The Daily Mail.
145:, he took interest in travel writing as practised in the British press. Back in Ghana in 2004, Akpabli completed his MPhil degree in 2005. His thesis was entitled 'Promoting Tourism through Travel Writing in Ghanaian Newspapers.' Between 2006 and 2007, he attended the
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In June 2011 in South Africa, Kofi
Akpabli was voted CNN Multichoice African Journalist for Arts and Culture for the second time; making it the only time an African has annexed the CNN African Journalist Awards category back-to-back. His winning article is about the
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In Ghana, in 2013, he won the Travel and
Tourism Writer of the Year Award by the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Arts. In 2010, he was voted Journalist of the Year Award in the category of Entertainment and Tourism by the Ghana Journalist Association.
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In August 2002, Kofi received the
Biodiversity Reporting Award. This recognition came from Conservation International, USA, International Centre for Journalists, USA and International Federation of Environmental Journalists, USA.
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Akpabli started writing in 1991 when as a sixth-form student, a historical play he wrote captured first prize in a
National Play Writing Contest. It was organized by the Pan African Historical Theatre Festival (PANAFEST). The
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In a French language competition in the Upper East region in 2002, he won first prize in the professional category and represented the region in Accra March 2003 where he placed 2nd in the national finals.
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Akpabli is so far the only newspaper journalist in Ghana to have won the CNN award; the other winners all being broadcast journalists. He is also the only freelancer from Ghana to have reached that far.
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Before working at Central University, he worked with the Ghana Tourist Board (now,
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